2nd and 3rd Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

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

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

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

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

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

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

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.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

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

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

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

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.

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

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.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

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

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

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

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!