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!

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

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

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

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

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

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.

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

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.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

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!

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

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.

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.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

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

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

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

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

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

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!

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.