1st - 3rd Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 3

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.

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.

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!

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

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.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

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

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.

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

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.

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

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

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!

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

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

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

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

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.

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

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

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!

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.