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

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

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:

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

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.

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

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

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

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

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 your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, 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.

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!

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

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

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

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 with silly sentences!

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.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

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

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 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!

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

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

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!