Preschool - 2nd Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 4

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

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

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

Decorate eggs for Easter without the mess by making an Easter egg collage instead in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!

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

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

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

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

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

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

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

This season, your child will make his very own candy cane decoration. He can make a bunch and put them all around your home!

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

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

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

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

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.

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.