1st - 5th Grade Grammar and Mechanics Activities

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

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!

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.

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 activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

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

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

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.

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

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

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

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.

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

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

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

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

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.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

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

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.