Here's a fun activity to get your kindergarten child to listen to beginning alphabet sounds and match them with their letter symbols.

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.

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

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.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

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.

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

Your kindergartener will improve his fine motor skills and learn beginning baking techniques as he helps you concoct this crumbly apple dessert!

Create clear sound shakers so your preschooler can observe and compare the different sounds that objects make!

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

A fun activity for a hot day, this will give young kids a chance to experiment with beginning science and math â and splash around in the process!

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

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!

In this activity, your child fills jars with water to learn about acoustics, and practices mixing colors to form a rainbow of colors and sounds.

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.

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

Design a set of uppercase and lowercase alphabet cards, then use them to play memory and phonics games!

This reading activity combines some of the most common sight words with a pictograph puzzle that's sure to keep your kindergartener engaged.

In this activity, your child will learn and practice mindfulness by using their senses to focus on one thing at a time.

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

There's no need to hunt down a cactus for this rainstick craft. In fact, you can recycle items you probably already have on hand.

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.