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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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!

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

In this activity, you will create a magical box to help your child learn her letter sounds. Here's how to play the Abracadabra learning game!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

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.