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Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Want to get your bookworm interested in science? Check out this cool activity that teaches kids how to write science fiction!

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

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Social networking sites that promote reading, reviewing books, and sharing books with others are springing up all over, making reading fun again.

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

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

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.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Here's a fun game to practice strategies for acing the Reading Comprehension section of the SAT.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Help motivate your child to become a more avid and consistent reader by creating a train-themed reading chart that can serve as a visual reminder of their progress.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

This reading activity combines some of the most common sight words with a pictograph puzzle that's sure to keep your kindergartener engaged.

Here's a motivational kit that lets your emerging reader know you're with him for the whole wild ride.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

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!

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

Your middle schooler's favorite book is being made into a motion picture, and she's the chosen designer. Help her create a movie poster to entice viewers.

Who remembers their ancient Greek history? Here's a teen-friendly refresher course in the epic poem The Odyssey, as well as SAT vocabulary your teen can use.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

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.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

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

Playing doctor is not only fun, it's also a way to teach kids about the parts of the body and how they are spelled.

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

Here's a quick look at the Hamlet, the classic Shakespearean tragedy, as well as useful SAT vocabulary to give your teen a leg up in English class and beyond.

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

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