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.

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

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.

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

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

Crayon hearts add some Valentine's Day fun to your child's coloring pages. Make a set of crayons hearts as a beautiful gift for your child or a friend.

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.

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

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.

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

Here is a guide to making a felt busy book that's perfect for focusing on specific learning areas with your child.

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

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!

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

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

In this activity, your child will learn to name the numbers from 1 through 5 and they'll practice their counting 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.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

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.

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!

Save money and get creative by helping your preschooler create and make her own unique sketchbook to put her art in.

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:

Kids love to hear about themselves. And reading about themselves is even better! This personal yearbook will let them record all their important facts.

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

In this activity, your child will be given images that portray different perspectives or emotions. Your child will practice empathy by coloring and drawing what each person may have been thinking or feeling.

Play this hidden number game with your preschooler or kindergartener that will give them a leg up in learning numbers.

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.