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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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!

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

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!

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

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.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!