English Language Arts Activities : Page 6

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.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Lacing is a great way to practice hand-eye coordination, which helps with writing. Turn it into a fun preschool art project, by stringing up some ABCs!

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Science fair project that determines whether brain size is correlated with intelligence.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

Discover which absorbent material is the best; the Shamwow, paper towels, or cotton towels.

Try this delicious and nutritious recipe for Green Eggs and Ham, inspired by Dr. Seuss's classic story of Sam I Am.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

The objective of this science fair project is to explore the relationship between acidic and basic compounds.

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.