Preschool - 4th Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 5

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.

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

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.

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

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.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

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

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

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

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

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

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

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.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

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.

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

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.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.