3rd - 5th Grade Vocabulary Activities

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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!