This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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 master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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