4th and 5th Grade Grammar and Mechanics Activities

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

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

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

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!

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

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

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

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!

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

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.

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

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

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

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!

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

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

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

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.