4th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

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

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

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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

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

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.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

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

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

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

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

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

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?