3rd - 5th Grade English Language Arts Activities

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

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.

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!

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

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

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

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

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

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

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

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

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.

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

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.

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.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.