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Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Make some fairy tale felt board stories with your child the next time you're looking for a fun activity for a lazy afternoon.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

Geared toward kindergarten and first grade learners, The Weather Inside is a fun activity to help help children understand and process their emotions in a healthy way.

Use your cookie cutters with jello to have the kids create a story with the shapes they choose.

In this activity, help your kindergartener develop sequencing skills with these easy story sequence cards

Get your kindergartener storytelling in this arts and crafts activity by making Character Cubes that'll help improve your child's reading and writing skills.

Got a shoelace? Got a kindergartener? Help your child learn to use the number line by creating one out of a lace.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

This flannel board will give your child hands-on practice with math, but in a fun format, full of ladybugs.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

Celebrate the new year by making a memory book with your child! You'll reinforce time and calendar concepts and you'll get to reminisce about the past year.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Hop over to the craft table and make this easy bunny puppet!

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Help your budding artist construct this paper chain caterpillar craft, inspired by the intelligent bug from "Alice in Wonderland."

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.