5th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

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 fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

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

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

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.

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

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

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 great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.