English Language Arts Activities : Page 7

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!

Measure the effectiveness of detergent containing a UV-absorbing compound in blocking UV-A radiation. Use black light and UV detecting beads.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Study the anatomy of the brain and the functions of the corpus callosum. Research split brain surgery and its impact on advances in neuroscience.

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.