1st - 3rd Grade English Language Arts Activities

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

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.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

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

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

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

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.

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

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.