3rd - 5th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

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!

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

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

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

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

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

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

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

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

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.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

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.

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

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

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

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

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.

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

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.