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This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

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

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!

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.

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

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

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

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

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

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

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

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

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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

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!

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

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

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

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.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

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.

The objective of this science fair project is to explore the relationship between acidic and basic compounds.