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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.