Vocabulary Activities

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

Does your fifth grader need a study buddy for geometry? Forget about a tutor. Help him make his own geometry dictionary!

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

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

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

Science fair project that determines whether brain size is correlated with intelligence.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Show your teen how to create silly limericks--cheery comic verses that probably originated in Limerick, Ireland--of her own.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

This science fair project idea raises awareness of a real ecological issue.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!