Kindergarten English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

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!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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!

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

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

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

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

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

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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

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.

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!

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

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

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

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

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.