3rd and 4th Grade Common Core English Language Arts Activities

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

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!

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

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

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

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

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!

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

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.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

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.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

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

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!