Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

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 is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

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

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

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:

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

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.

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

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

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

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.

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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.

Decorate eggs for Easter without the mess by making an Easter egg collage instead in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

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!

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

In this activity, your kid will cut rectangles, circles and triangles to create a portrait of the jolliest man of them all: Santa Claus!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

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.

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.