English Language Arts Activities : Page 9

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

The goal of this science fair project was to examine how different angles of decline affect the tipping point of a vehicle.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

Free science fair project idea that examines cheating in school-age children. Project involves a task in which children are tested on various tasks.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

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!

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

The purpose of this science fair project is to determine whether Green Bags, with or without refrigeration, are most effective in preserving food.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.