English Language Arts Activities : Page 9

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

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!

Make a photo essay! This fun middle school photography activity makes creative writing come to life by turning words into pictures.

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

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.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

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

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Show your teens the connection between making history and writing it by having them write, illustrate, and edit a newspaper from the past.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Help your preschooler craft her very own announcement to celebrate the special transition to "big kids" school!

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.