Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

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!

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

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

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

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

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.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

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

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

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

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

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

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

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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