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

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

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.

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

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.

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:

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

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

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

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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

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

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

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.

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.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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.

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.