Preschool - 1st Grade Phonics Activities

Help your child develop her letter recognition skills throughout the week leading up to Valentineâs Day with this simple activity.

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.

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

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

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

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

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

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!

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

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.

In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

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!

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

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

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

While you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing reading skills and learning about magnets.

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

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.

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

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.