2nd - 5th Grade Reading Activities : Page 2

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

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

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

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

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.

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.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

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.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

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.

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.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

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.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

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.

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

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

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.

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.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

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.

Have your child make a giant red poppy out of tissue paper in remembrance of the brave soldiers who served, especially those who died serving their countries.