Elementary School 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.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

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!

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

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

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

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

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

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!

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

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!

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

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.