4th and 5th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 3

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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

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.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

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

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

Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

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

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

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

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

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

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

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.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

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

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!