Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Grammar and Mechanics Activities

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

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

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

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

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

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

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!