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

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

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.

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.

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.

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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!

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.