2nd - 4th Grade Grammar and Mechanics Activities

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

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

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!

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

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

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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 game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

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

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

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!

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

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

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

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

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.