Kindergarten - 2nd 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.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

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

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension 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.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

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

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

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

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!