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.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

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:

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

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

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

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

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

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

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

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.

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

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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

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!

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

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.

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.

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 practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

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

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.

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

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

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