Elementary School English Language Arts Activities : Page 3

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

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

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

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

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.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

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.

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

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

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.

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

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.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

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.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

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.

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!