5th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

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!

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

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

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!

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

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

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

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

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.

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

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

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.

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.

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.

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!