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

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.

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!

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

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

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

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

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

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

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

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

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.

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

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

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

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.

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.

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

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

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

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

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.

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.