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.

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.

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

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

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

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

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

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

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

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

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.