Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

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.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

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

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

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

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

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

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 to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

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 child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

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.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

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

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

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

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!

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

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

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.

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.

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

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

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.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

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

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.