2nd - 5th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 3

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

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

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

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

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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.

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!

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

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!

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

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

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

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.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

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

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

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

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.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.