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

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 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.

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

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.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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