Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

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!

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

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

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

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

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

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

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.