Elementary School English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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.

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!

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

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

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.

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

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.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

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!

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

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

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.