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

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.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

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.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

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!

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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!

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.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

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.

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

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:

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

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