Kindergarten and 1st Grade Grammar and Mechanics Activities

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

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

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

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

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.

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.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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

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

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!

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

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

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!