Here's a fun activity to get your kindergarten child to listen to beginning alphabet sounds and match them with their letter symbols.

Make use of your family's leftover Christmas cards and wrapping paper with a colorful letter craft activity!

Teach your kid a lesson about recycling by helping him create a letter holder out of an old cardboard box.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Draw letter people with your child to help her take a closer look at the letters, and see the differences between them.

Is your fifth grader trying overnight camp this summer? If so, prepare your child for writing a letter home with this activity!

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Spark your child's interest in current events by encouraging them to write a letter to the U.S. president.

In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

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

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

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

Invite your high schooler to author a letter to his future self about his goals and perspective on life, and then give it to him to review at graduation!

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.

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.

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

In this activity, you will create a magical box to help your child learn her letter sounds. Here's how to play the Abracadabra learning game!

Help your child reinforce the order of the alphabet with this hands-on activity using some everyday materials. It's a fun way to put a spin on a timeless skill.

As your child plays photographer, snapping pictures around the yard, he'll also be practicing recognizing letter sounds, which will help him learn to read.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

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

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

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.

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

Cut up some shapes and make this cute letter A alligator with your child, and they'll always remember the first letter of the alphabet!

This project compares test subjects' responses to whining and other "attachment" and attention-getting sounds to determine which sounds are most distracting.