Elementary School English Language Arts Activities

Greek mythology offers up some of the most epic tales ever. This Greek mythology tree activity introduces students to some of the main characters in Greek mythology.

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.

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!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

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!

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

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

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Does your fifth grader need a study buddy for geometry? Forget about a tutor. Help him make his own geometry dictionary!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

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

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.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

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.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

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

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

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.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

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.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!