Help your child develop her letter recognition skills throughout the week leading up to Valentineâs Day with this simple activity.

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.

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

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.

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

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.

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.

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

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.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

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

While you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing reading skills and learning about magnets.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

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

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

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.