2nd - 5th Grade English Language Arts Activities

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Greek mythology offers up some of the most epic tales ever. This Greek mythology tree activity introduces students to some of the main characters in Greek mythology.

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

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

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.

Does your fifth grader need a study buddy for geometry? Forget about a tutor. Help him make his own geometry dictionary!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

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

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

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!

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

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.

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.

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