English Language Arts Activities : Page 3

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

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.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

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.

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

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!

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

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

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

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

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.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

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

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

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

Draw letter people with your child to help her take a closer look at the letters, and see the differences between them.

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