2nd Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

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.

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.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

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

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."