This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

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.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

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

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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.

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

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.

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

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

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

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.

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.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

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

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

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.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

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

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

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

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

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 Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.