Kindergarten - 4th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 9

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

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!

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

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

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

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

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

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

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

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.

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