3rd - 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!

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

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

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.

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!

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!

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

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.

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

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.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

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.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.