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.

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

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

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

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.

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.

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.

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

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

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 you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

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.

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

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

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.