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.

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

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

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

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.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

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

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

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

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

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.

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

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

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

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

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

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

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

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

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

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

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

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.