Preschool - 3rd Grade Grammar and Mechanics Activities

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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

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

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

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card 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 reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

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.

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.

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

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

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

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

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.

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

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

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

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

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.