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

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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!

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

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

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

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!

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

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

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.

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