2nd - 4th Grade Common Core English Language Arts Activities

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

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

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!

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

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

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.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

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.

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.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

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

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

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

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

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

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.