Elementary School English Language Arts Activities : Page 8

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

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!

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

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

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

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

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

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.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

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