1st - 3rd Grade English Language Arts Activities

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

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

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.

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!

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.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

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

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

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

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.

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

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 a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

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

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

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!

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

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