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

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.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

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

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

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.

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!

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.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

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

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

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

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.

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!

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

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 Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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:

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

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

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

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