Kindergarten and 1st Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 4

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.