Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

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

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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.

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

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

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

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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

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

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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.

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.