Board games are important for children because they make learning fun while helping them develop important skills. Playing board games can improve problem-solving, communication, teamwork, patience, and decision-making. They also encourage children to follow rules, take turns, and spend quality time with family and friends. Most importantly, board games help children learn and grow while having fun together 

The board and skill-based character cards help children build reading skills by identifying letters, rhyming, correcting silly sentences  and learning how to read basic words. 

Boggle Junior  has players simply learn the vital ABCs and word matching cubes to pictures and word cards.  It's ideal for helping to practice memory and recognition as well.

Boggle is a fast-paced word-search board game where players race against a 90-second timer to find as many connected words as possible in a 4x4 grid of letter cubes. 

Sequence Letters is an educational board game  that helps children ages 4 to 7 learn the alphabet and letter sounds.

Sequence:  Play a card from your hand and place a chip on a corresponding space on the game board. Block your opponents and remove their chips, but watch out for the Jacks - they're wild! Get five in a row for a Sequence! 

Zingo Word Builder is an interactive, fast-paced educational matching game by ThinkFun designed to help early readers build spelling, vocabulary, and reading skills. 

Quiddler Word Game  helps with both spelling and vocabulary.  The goal of the game is to arrange all of the cards into one or  more words.

There is a Quiddler Junior Game that practices early reading skills.

Twister Scabble a fun party board game that combines the physical movement of Twister with the word-building skills of Scrabble. 

The players create word combinatons through two different stacks of cards.  One stack has descriptive words while the other has names of people, places, and events.  Ages 9+

This game helps ages 7+ practice spelling through racing to build crossword grids and working to be the first to use all of their letter tiles.

The players of the game wear a card and ask basic yes or no questions to figure out what word they're wearing.  This game expands language skills and vocabulary.

The players have to read the card and know what they need to act out.