Preschool English Language Arts Activities : Page 3

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

While you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing reading skills and learning about magnets.

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

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

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

Want to make number skills second nature to your preschooler? Try these cheerful, "sunny" number flash cards!

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

This sunshiny art project is perfect for a rainy day and it helps preschoolers with fine motor skills.

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

Help your preschooler craft her very own announcement to celebrate the special transition to "big kids" school!

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

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.

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

Your child can count down the days until Christmas while giving Santa's beard a trim. This adorable project bolsters counting and number recognition skills.

Combine a recycling craft with ABC practice with this homemade foam craft idea.

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

Create a glamorous yet easy-to-store puppet stage for your preschooler or pre-kindergartener!

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