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!

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

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:

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

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.

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

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.

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

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

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

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

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

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

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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

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!

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.