Elementary School Reading Activities : Page 3

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.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

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.

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.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

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.

Have your child make a giant red poppy out of tissue paper in remembrance of the brave soldiers who served, especially those who died serving their countries.

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

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