2nd - 5th Grade Grammar and Mechanics Activities

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

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!

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.

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

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

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.