English Language Arts Activities : Page 14

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

Your child can count down the days until Christmas while giving Santa's beard a trim. This adorable project bolsters counting and number recognition skills.

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Combine a recycling craft with ABC practice with this homemade foam craft idea.

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

Discover whether cheap saline solution bottle cleans and disinfects just as well as more expensive kinds formulated with different ingredients.

This project examines whether more expensive golf balls translate into better results on the golf course.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

Meant to be fun and inspiring, Oulipo N+7 challenges writers to create new writing, use language and enriches vocabulary, spelling and critical thinking.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Create a glamorous yet easy-to-store puppet stage for your preschooler or pre-kindergartener!

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

The goal of this science fair project is to evaluate the effect of heat on sound wave frequency.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.