For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

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

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

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

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

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

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.

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.

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

As your child plays photographer, snapping pictures around the yard, he'll also be practicing recognizing letter sounds, which will help him learn to read.

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

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

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.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

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:

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book with silly sentences!

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.