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

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

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

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

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

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

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

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

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

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.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

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.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

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

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

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

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.

This game turns prediction, a major component of third grade reading, into a fun game.

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

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

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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: