4th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

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!

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

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

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

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

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 an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

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

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

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!

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?

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

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!

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.

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

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

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

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

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.

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

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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!

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.

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

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