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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

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.

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!

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.

In this activity, you will create a magical box to help your child learn her letter sounds. Here's how to play the Abracadabra learning game!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

As your child plays photographer, snapping pictures around the yard, he'll also be practicing recognizing letter sounds, which will help him learn to read.

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!

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!

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

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

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

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.