Elementary School English Language Arts Activities : Page 3

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.

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!

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

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!

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.

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

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

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

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

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

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.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

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.