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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

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

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.

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.

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!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.