Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

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.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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.

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.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

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

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

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

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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.

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

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

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

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

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

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.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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!

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

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.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

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!

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

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.