5th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

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!

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

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!

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

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

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

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

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

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

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

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

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.

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

Here's an easy project: create a homework helper bookmark so your fourth grader can write down assignments and mark the pages he needs to read.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

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

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

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

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

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.

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