Elementary School English Language Arts Activities : Page 9

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

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

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

Here's an easy project: create a homework helper bookmark so your fourth grader can write down assignments and mark the pages he needs to read.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

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.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

The objective of this science fair project is to explore the relationship between acidic and basic compounds.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."