Letter Bingo

Bingo is a classic activity that can be both fun and educational.

Letter Matching

This matching activity helps kids learn to recognize letters more quickly. It involves a homemade alphabet chart and magnetic or foam letters.

Let’s Make a Book

Take your camera and capture some of the signs and words your child is starting to recognize. You’ll use the photos to create a book that your child can read.

Listen! Look! Splat!

This activity motivates your child to have fun with sight words by using a flyswatter. Learning sight words helps kids become more confident readers.

The Alphabet Book Has My Letters

This activity helps improve letter-sound correspondence. Kids get to use a favorite alphabet book and their budding knowledge of letters and sounds.

A Few of My Favorite Things

Help your child create her own book showcasing some of her favorite things. With your help, she’ll be both the author and the illustrator of it!

A Letter a Day

Creating an Alphabet Book helps kids practice writing uppercase and lowercase letters, recognize beginning sounds and make something memorable.

Alpha Pics

This fun activity encourages children to use a cell phone camera to capture their findings from a letter hunt. They play detective and you review the evidence.

Conversation Cards

Using question cards is a great way to get family members thinking and talking about different topics. Here are some ideas to help you make your own fun cards.

Delightful Directions

Help kids use their expressive language skills by letting them guide you, step by step, through an activity they know by heart.

Fun With Fruit

In this activity, children use their senses to describe various fruits or snacks. It’s a delicious way to help improve kids’ language skills.

Fun With Junk

A rich vocabulary is important to reading comprehension. This activity is a simple way to help your child develop vocabulary by exploring everyday objects.

Fun With Positional Words

This activity gives your child a chance to listen closely to directions, show an understanding of positional words and make a work of art.

Guess the Word

In this activity, your child will separate the beginning sound in a word from the rest of the word. It’s called onset and rime, an important pre-reading skill.

Laughing Letters

With this fun activity your child makes up and draws pictures for sentences using words that begin with the same letter.

Let's Talk About Safety

Help develop your child’s decision-making and problem-solving skills.

Letters Are Just Sticks and Curves

In this activity, your child will have the chance to see letters, hear letter names and sounds, make letters and explore letters using textures.

Letters, Letters, Everywhere

This activity helps your child recognize uppercase and lowercase letters and even short words by searching for them in magazines and newspapers.

Let’s Go Outside

Connecting kids with nature and talking about it is a great way to help them build a rich vocabulary. Here’s how to make being outdoors a learning experience.

Let’s Write Some Rhyming Words

In this activity, kids combine rhyme and beginning sounds to start writing rhyming words. This helps them become more sensitive to the sounds of language.

Mystery Bag Detective: Making “Sense” of It

In this activity, your child will use her senses to guess a mystery item in a brown paper lunch bag. This helps encourages kids’ oral language skills.

Name Dictionary

Help your child learn more about words by making a Name Dictionary. This activity can help develop stronger spelling and reading skills.

Race to the Rhymes

Have kids show you what they know about rhyme with this fun game. It will get your child to move and think of rhyming words quickly.

Stories to Grow On

Practice the tradition of storytelling with your child by creating characters and experiences. You might be surprised at how much your child like these tales.

Take Your Time, Turtle

Playing with the sounds in words can help your child understand that words are made up of smaller units of sound. This is an important pre-reading skill.

The Shopping List

Next time you start to write a grocery shopping list, stop. You can turn this everyday chore into an authentic writing experience for your child.

Treasure Map

Following and making treasure maps are great ways to get your child to read and write. You can even have your whole family join in on the fun.

Voice Magic

This activity teaches kids that how they use their voice matters. They’ll learn that the way things are said can change how words feel and what they mean.

What Can It Be?

Stimulate vocabulary and conversation skills with this game. You give clues about pictures and your child tries to guess what you’re describing.

Word Detective

This activity gives kids good practice in learning sight words so they can say them quickly when they see them. It’s an important step in learning to read.

Counting Words

In this easy activity, your child will practice listening for individual words in sentences.

How Many Sounds in “L-o-g”?

In this activity, your child will learn to use objects to visually represent the sounds in words. This helps kids become stronger readers and spellers.

Illustrate the Poem

For this activity, kids take a familiar poem and add drawings to it. The illustrated poem might even become part of a poetry book that your child creates.

Long Word, Short Word!

An easy, fun listening game to help your child learn about the length of syllables in words.

Nursery Rhymes With a Twist

In this fun activity, you and your child work on rhyming skills by rewriting traditional nursery rhymes with a more modern and silly twist.