Book excerpt: Children's brains learn by playing games and solving puzzles - unlike the typical spelling drills practiced at schools, this type of learning is natural, intuitive, and effective. By offering your child word puzzles such as these word search activities, you'll boost their language skills without boring them to death! Your child will get a chance to learn new words, recognize familiar ones, and remember their spelling with effortless ease - which results in better writing, faster reading, and higher grades in ALL subjects. 100 word search puzzles: The large number of puzzles means hours of screen-free entertainment for your young learner. They are designed specifically for this age group (5-6,6-7,7-8,8-9,9-10) . Kid-friendly themes and categories with illustrations: family, basic computer, vegetables, sport, animals, and verbs are just some of the 57 categories and themes of these word search puzzles. Every puzzle has a different theme and category, which helps develop word association and general language arts skills. This book is designed to help kids gain confidence, by starting out easy and then getting trickier as children progress through the puzzles. This will both encourage and challenge your child, expanding their capacity to learn.