1st - 5th Grade Vocabulary Activities

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

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

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

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

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

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

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

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

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

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

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

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!

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

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

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

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

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

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