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

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

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

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

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 fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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