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

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

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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.

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:

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 Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

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!

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.

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

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 child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

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

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

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

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.

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

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

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