2nd and 3rd Grade Grammar Activities

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

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

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

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

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

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

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

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.

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

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.