2nd - 5th Grade English Language Arts Exercises

Students will understand just where their vocabulary words come from with this root words exercise.

Expertly split syllables with this phonics activity! A strong understanding of syllabication patterns can improve students’ ability to break apart and decode unfamiliar words. 

Students will be able to understand words without a dictionary after they work through this exercise teaching how to determine the meaning of words using roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

This exercise provides ground rules for forming plurals, as well as common irregular words students should learn.

Students will have better reading comprehension skills after completing this exercise that shows them how to pick out contextual clues.

Students will appreciate the ability to write some of their most commonly used words after working through this exercise on contractions.

Give students an introduction to the most simple of verbs with this exercise on the present tense.

After students complete this simple and clear exercise from Education.com, they will know how to how to abbreviate correctly.

Eliminate a common error in speaking and writing with this exercise that teaches pronoun and verb agreement.

Help students identify whether or not a sentence is complete with these exercises that give helpful hints when they get stuck!

Have your fourth grader test their knowledge of subjects and predicates with these exercises that ask them to identify whether a sentence is a fragment, and what is missing.

Students who complete this exercise will be able to say they learned about the different types of past tense verbs thanks to Education.com.

Along with understanding the root of words, this exercise will help students learn common suffixes tacked onto different words.

This introduction to past tense verbs will give students the confidence to describe recently passed actions.

Students will understand how to identify and use metaphors after they work through this exercise.

English is full of exceptions, and this exercise gives students an introduction to some of the many irregular verbs.

Students will be able to explain a situation clearly after completing this educational exercise on how, when, and where adverbs.

Even after students have learned phonics, there are plenty of irregular words this exercise can help them learn to spell.

This exercise applies students’ understanding of adjectives to learning how to use adverbs, words that modify actions.

Connecting sentences and ideas is key in essay and report writing, and these exercises will help your fourth grader get ahead of the curve.

This exercise teaches students how to compare objects and define outliers using comparative and superlative adjectives.

Students will hone their ability to identify differences between homophones with this final exercise in the series.

By fifth grade, students are starting to use all of the parts of speech in their writing. Make sure they do so correctly with these exercises that solidify the place of these words in sentences.

There are silent letters lurking in every word, and this exercise will help students learning how to spell by shining a spotlight on them.

Open up a whole world of new words to your students with this exercise on multi syllable words.

Give students practice with all of the parts that make up complete sentences in this exercise.

Allow your fourth graders to identify all parts of prepositional phrases with these exercises that have them visualize steps and provide helpful hints.

Develop students’ skill at applying prefixes and suffixes with this exercise that demonstrates how compound words are formed.

This exercise will teach students learn how to pronounce the unique sounds of words containing double syllables.

Teach students to write using relative spaces with these exercises that use prepositions to describe one noun in relation to another.