1st and 2nd Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 3

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.

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.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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.

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

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

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

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!

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

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

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.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

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 fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

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

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

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

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