English Language Arts Activities : Page 3

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

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

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

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.

Make a textured name plate to hang on your preschooler's door!

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

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

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.

Creating a family newspaper is a great way to teach your child the characteristics of a newspaper article, give him or her some excellent writing practice.

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.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

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

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

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.

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

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.