1st and 2nd Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

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 grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

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.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

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

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

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.

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.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

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

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

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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