Kindergarten - 2nd Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 4

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

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

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

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

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

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

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

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

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.

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!

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.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

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

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.

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

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

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

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.

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

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!