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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.

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

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

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

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!

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

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!

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

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

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.