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

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

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

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.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

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

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

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

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.

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.