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.

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.

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

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.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

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.

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.

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

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.