Kindergarten - 3rd Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 5

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

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

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

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

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

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

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

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

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.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

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.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

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!