3rd and 4th 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!

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

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!

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

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

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

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

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

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

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 your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

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

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

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

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