Elementary School Common Core English Language Arts Activities

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

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

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

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.

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

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

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

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.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

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

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.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

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

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

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!

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.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

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

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

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

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

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

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.