Elementary School English Language Arts Activities : Page 5

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

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 first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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!

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

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

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

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.