see whether all liquids evaporate at the same rate. In other words, does water evaporate at the same rate as juice?

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

Teaching your child some basic words in Spanish is a breeze at home, with this simple and fun activity that doesn't require special educational materials.

Kids write about their favorite parts of school in 100 words to celebrate 100 days of school in this 5th grade writing activity.

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.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

This time-based word builder is the perfect way to boost your child's vocabulary. Mix and match letters to see how many words she can come up with!

Use fun and fuzzy pipe cleaners to help your child learn how to form important letters that make up the words that are the building blocks of phonics.

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

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.

Determine the effect of reading aloud on memory skills. Prepare a list of randomly chosen words, ask volunteers to recall as many as possible from the list.

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

The words of great thinkers throughout the ages have changed the course of history. Have your kid find an inspiring quote and create a work of art around it.

In this social emotional learning activity, you will help your child practice mindfulness of emotions, guiding them to create a word search to understand and explain feeling words.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

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.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Boost your child's listening, verbal and teamwork skills with this unique trust game in which one player guides another through a maze using only words.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

This project examines if computer screen and text color affect retention and if people subconsciously prefer combinations of colors that help their retention.

Throughout history, people have used song as a teaching and memory tool. This project explores whether song improves a person's ability to retain information.