25 Toys, Games, and Puzzles That Will Help Your Kids Sharpen Their Early Reading Skills

While playing Learning Resources Sight Word Swat ($11), kids ages 5 and up can build their reading, spelling, and vocabulary skills as they race to swat various sight words before other players.

Kids in preschool and up will love ThinkFun Zingo! ($22), which challenges players to find sight words to fill in their bingo-like cards.

While playing Learning Resources Slam Ships Sight Words Game ($13), kids ages 5 and up will use their suction cup spaceship to grab sight words before the other players.

Your kids can take on three- and four-letter sight words with this Matching Letter Spelling Game ($14).

Not only does LeapFrog Storytime Buddy ($53) help build your child's literacy skills, but the books that come with Buddy teach kids about emotions, numbers, colors, shapes, and opposites.

While playing Junior Learning Spelligator ($30), kids ages 5 and up can practice sounding out words, building words, and spelling.

Rather than filling a bingo board with numbers, Sight Words Bingo ($10) focuses on sight words.

ThinkFun Zingo Word Builder ($20) comes with beginner and advanced cards that require kids to build words with the letters on their cards and the letter cards they pull from the zinger.

Toddlers will be introduced to 100 words across multiple categories — like colors, animals, and food — in the LeapFrog Learning Friends 100 Words Book ($18).

Edupress Sight Words Splat ($13) gives kids an opportunity to practice 75 sight words through a fun card game.

Educational Insights Hot Dots Jr. Let's Master Pre-K Reading ($23) comes with two books that contain lessons in letter recognition, phonics, sight words, and more.

Learning Resources Snap It Up! Phonics & Reading Card Game ($12) is a fast-paced card game that builds spelling, reading, and word families skills.

The Learning Resources Goodie Games ABC Cookies ($14) provides kids with all they need to boost their alphabet, letter recognition, beginning sounds, consonant-vowel-consonant word building, and early vocabulary skills.

In this version of Scrabble, Scrabble Junior ($15), kids ages 5 and up will match their letters to the ones on the board to build words and get points.

The Gamenote Sight Words Wooden Magnetic Fishing Game ($23) is a fun way to teach kids sight words with a competition element built in.

The Moonlite Storybook Projector for Smartphones ($17) makes reading magical and allows kids to follow along with their favorite stories.

Early readers can practice their consonant-vowel-consonant word building skills with these Little Bud Kids Spin-and-Read Montessori Phonetic Reading Blocks ($24).

The AGO Phonics Card Game ($23) comes with three different game decks, each with over 100 words to identify.

Learning Puzzles: Beginning Sounds ($14) contains 20 five-piece puzzles that teach and reinforce beginning consonant letter sounds.

LeapFrog LeapStart 3D Interactive Learning System ($46) includes over 700 activities across a library of more than 25 compatible books.

These High Frequency Vocabulary Flash Cards ($17) combine illustrations and short sentences to reinforce sight words and their meeanings.

The BOHS Literacy Wiz Fun Game ($15) helps kids to identify and spell lowercase sight words.

Melissa & Doug See & Spell ($12) includes eight double-sided spelling puzzles.

Each pack of Pixel Premium Magnetic Foam Letters ($17) comes with an ultra-light magnetic dry-erase whiteboard and more than 40 learning games. Plus, the product touts itself as the "safer, superior choice" to other magnetic letters, as each letter has a completely magnetic back sealed in a rubber casing.

The VTech Write and Learn Creative Center ($20) combined early reading and writing skills in one magnetic drawing board.