Kindergarten and 1st Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 3

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!