1st - 3rd Grade Grammar and Mechanics Activities

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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.

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.

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.

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

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

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!

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

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.

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

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.