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

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

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

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 kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

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

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

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

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

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

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.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

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.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.