Elementary School 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!

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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