Early Childhood Reading Comprehension Activities

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

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

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.

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

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

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

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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

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

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

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

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

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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!

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 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.

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:

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

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 activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

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