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Test Your Vocabulary
Test Your Vocabulary
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Test Your Vocabulary
Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Play Vocabulary Bingo!
Play Vocabulary Bingo!
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Play Vocabulary Bingo!
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.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Make an Illustrated Vocabulary Book!
Make an Illustrated Vocabulary Book!
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Make an Illustrated Vocabulary Book!
Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
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Learn New Words with Travel Vocabulary Cards
Learn New Words with Travel Vocabulary Cards
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Learn New Words with Travel Vocabulary Cards
Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.
2nd grade
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Build Vocabulary with Prefixes and Suffixes
Build Vocabulary with Prefixes and Suffixes
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Build Vocabulary with Prefixes and Suffixes
Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
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Build Vocabulary by Breaking it Down!
Build Vocabulary by Breaking it Down!
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Build Vocabulary by Breaking it Down!
Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
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Winter Words
Winter Words
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Winter Words
Prepare your child for winter with a fake igloo and a list of cozy and chilly vocabulary words.
2nd grade
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Guess My Word: A Vocab Game
Guess My Word: A Vocab Game
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Guess My Word: A Vocab Game
Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.
2nd grade
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Practice Geometry with Shape Riddles!
Practice Geometry with Shape Riddles!
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Practice Geometry with Shape Riddles!
Check out this fun and easy-to-play guessing game that will build your child's geometry vocabulary.
4th grade
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Play Vocab-Building Improv!
Play Vocab-Building Improv!
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Play Vocab-Building Improv!
Improve your kindergartener's vocabulary with this fun, quick, and simple improvisation activity! He'll love acting while practicing directionality words.
Kindergarten
Social studies
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Pine Forest
Pine Forest
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Pine Forest
Your child can create his very own pine forest covered in snow and learn some forest vocabulary too!
1st grade
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Fox in Socks-Inspired Tongue Twister Contest
Fox in Socks-Inspired Tongue Twister Contest
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Fox in Socks-Inspired Tongue Twister Contest
Try your hand at some Seuss-like tongue twisters! Boost those vocabulary skills with this fun game for the whole family.
1st grade
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Play Antonym-Synonym Tic-Tac-Toe
Play Antonym-Synonym Tic-Tac-Toe
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Play Antonym-Synonym Tic-Tac-Toe
Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.
2nd grade
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Learning Opposites
Learning Opposites
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Learning Opposites
This fun photography activity will build your child's vocabulary, their understanding of the world, and they'll make their own game of concentration!
1st grade
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Mother's Day Chocolates
Mother's Day Chocolates
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Mother's Day Chocolates
This year on Mother's Day, here's a gift that builds vocabulary while bringing a smile to Mom's face!
2nd grade
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Sight Word Island Hopping!
Sight Word Island Hopping!
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Sight Word Island Hopping!
All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
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Tic-Tac-Toe Circle Terms
Tic-Tac-Toe Circle Terms
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Tic-Tac-Toe Circle Terms
Help your student memorize the vocabulary needed to excel in geometry. This fun Tic-Tac-Toe game focuses on terms used when working with circles.
5th grade
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Qualities of a Soldier
Qualities of a Soldier
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Qualities of a Soldier
This simple Veterans Day craft is a great way to have your kid work on her drawing skills and put her vocabulary to the test too!
2nd grade
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Scrambled Words
Scrambled Words
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Scrambled Words
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.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
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Go on a Direction Scavenger Hunt
Go on a Direction Scavenger Hunt
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Go on a Direction Scavenger Hunt
This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your child with the directional vocabulary he should master in time for kindergarten.
Preschool
Reading & Writing
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Hop on Pop Hopscotch
Hop on Pop Hopscotch
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Hop on Pop Hopscotch
Have a blast celebrating the poetic prose of Dr. Seuss as you hop your way to better vocabulary and reading skills. Play Hop on Pop Hopscotch!
Kindergarten
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Play Ice Cream Addition!
Play Ice Cream Addition!
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Play Ice Cream Addition!
Help your first grader, second grader, or third grader boost his addition skills and math vocabulary with this fun summer game Ice Cream Addition!
1st grade
Math
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Take the Portmanteau Challenge!
Take the Portmanteau Challenge!
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Take the Portmanteau Challenge!
Want a word game to play? How about just a fun way to spend the afternoon? Get creative thinking going and have fun with vocabulary!
5th grade
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What's Eating Hamlet? Reading Shakespeare
What's Eating Hamlet? Reading Shakespeare
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What's Eating Hamlet? Reading Shakespeare
Here's a quick look at the Hamlet, the classic Shakespearean tragedy, as well as useful SAT vocabulary to give your teen a leg up in English class and beyond.
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Make and Play a Loteria Board Game
Make and Play a Loteria Board Game
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Make and Play a Loteria Board Game
Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.
2nd grade
Social studies
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Vocabulary activities help your child learn new words through games and crafts! Your child will enjoy being a word detective in these games, as he finds new vocabulary in books, in word scrambles, and in muffin tins. These games and crafts are designed to encourage kids not only to learn vocabulary words for school, but to seek meaning in words that they encounter in everyday interactions with books, TV, and other people. These vocabulary activities are a great way for you and your child to spend time together while building lifelong skills.