English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

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.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

This season, your child will make his very own candy cane decoration. He can make a bunch and put them all around your home!

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

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