Language art activities

37 fun language arts games and activities to teach kids in kingergarten through middle school the fundamentals of language and literature!

This Language Arts Interactive Notebook is filled with over 30 pages of hands-on grammar activities for grades 4-8. Activities including everything from diagramming to figurative language.

Give the children a piece of paper that says “I can’t imagine life without” in the center of the page, and then have the students write all over the page what they cannot live without.

Teaching figurative language to 3rd grade students? Check out these fun figurative language activities that will help your students with identifying types of figurative language. Included are activities such as creating figurative language poems, engaging gallery walks, and more!

As Spring Break approaches, I find that my fifth graders are in need of some reminders as to what it means to be kind to each other. In general, they are sweet kids, but at times the words they use and actions they take, particularly on the playground, aren't the kindest. Our read aloud for the month is Wonder by RJ Palacio so the theme of kindness fit right into our room. It just so happens that a new book, We're All Wonders by RJ Palacio, a picture book intended for younger readers to…

Paint a Watermelon Poem. A fun way to encourage reluctant writers to try writing free-form poetry. Great activity for elementary kids.

Read about ten activities to use in your classroom for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas for your upper elementary students. From STEM challenges to printables these activities cover curriculum and bring engagement to your students.

Interactive Read Alouds allow us to teach a broad range of standards within one text. This month's read aloud lessons focus on the Key Ideas and Details and Craft and Structure standards in Literature for Second Grade. They cover answering questions using key details from the text, recounting the story, determining the central message, describing how characters respond to major events and challenges, and describing the overall structure of the story. The books were chosen based on the needs…

We've been learning about the parts of speech in the most fun ways. A parts of speech printable and flip book, writing our own mad libs, and more.