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.

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!

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.

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

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

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.

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

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

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!

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

Kids love to hear about themselves. And reading about themselves is even better! This personal yearbook will let them record all their important facts.

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

This season, your child will make his very own candy cane decoration. He can make a bunch and put them all around your home!

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.

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

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

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

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.

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.

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

Help your kindergartener practice letter strokes while experimenting with the painting style of the great artist Mondrian.