Elementary School English Language Arts Activities : Page 9

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

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

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

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 fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

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.

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.

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

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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!

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

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

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.

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

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