English Language Arts Activities

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Which battery lasts the longest? In this science fair project, kids will test popular brand name batteries like Duracell and Energizer against generic brands.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

Encourage your preschooler's creativity with this exciting art project! Every "scratch art" drawing is unique and colorful!

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

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!

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

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.

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

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

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

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

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

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!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.