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!

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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.

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

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

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

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

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

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

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

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

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

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

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.