2nd - 4th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 3

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

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

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!

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

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

The objective of this science fair project is to explore the relationship between acidic and basic compounds.

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

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

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.

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

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!

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.

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

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.

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

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

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

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.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

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.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.