1st - 5th Grade English Language Arts Activities

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

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

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

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

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

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 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 science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

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

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.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

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.

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.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

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

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

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