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.

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

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

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

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!

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

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!

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

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.

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!

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

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.

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.

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

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

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

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

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

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

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

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

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.