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

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

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.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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