4th and 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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!

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.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

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.

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

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

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

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

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

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

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.