2nd - 5th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 6

I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and creating jokes or fortunes to write on the Popsicle sticks.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

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

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

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

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

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

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

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

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.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

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

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

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

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

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.

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.