Kindergarten - 2nd Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 5

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.

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

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

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.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

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!

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

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

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

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.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

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

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

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

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

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

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.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

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!

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

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!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

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

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.