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

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

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

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

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:

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

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

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.

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.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

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 child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.