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!

Science fair project that compares the ecology of different soil samples by identifying which sample has the most invertebrates living in it.

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 simple way to help your child understand story problems begins as a quick activity and turns into a study tool for years to come!

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Bring the classic game of "Red Rover" up to date with color and shape recognition skills for your child.

Determine if gender affects the ability to identify different smells.

Simon Says is a classic outdoor game that young children love. Promote your child's development and improve listening skills by playing the game in a new way.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

How does your ghost feel? No, no, we're not wondering if it's happy or sad, joyful or mad. We want to know your ghost's texture!

Play with, explore, and describe everyday objects with your preschooler to get her ready to learn basic math skills and concepts.

Teach your preschooler color recognition using this handy egg carton sorter. She will group objects by color and learn to recognize their names with this tool.

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

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

Determine which factors promote the greatest memory interference. Administer test, time how long it takes subjects to complete different tasks.

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.

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Found poetry is a great exercise for kids to practice seeing the beauty and humor in ordinary, everyday language.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

In this arts and crafts activity, boost your kindergartener's letter recognition and reading skills by helping her create a paper word quilt.

Check out this cool science fair project idea to explore short and long term memory and whether there is gender differences in memory.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.