English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

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

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

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!

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

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

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

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.