1st - 5th 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.

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

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!

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

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