Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

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

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:

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

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.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

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

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!

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

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.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.