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2nd Grade English Language Arts Activities : Page 2

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Write a Safety Rules Manual

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Write an "I Used To, Now I" Poem

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this  exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Write Parts of Speech Acrostic Poetry!

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Write a Thanksgiving Day Poem

Here&#39;s an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child&#39;s pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Write a Going Green Plan

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Make Your Own Fairy Tale

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Autumn Cinquain

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Fall Family Theater Night

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

Gratitude Tree 

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Complete the Christmas Story

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Write Your Own Tall Tale

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Create a Recyclable Creature

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

Word Wall Art

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Thanksgiving Food List

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Become a Word Detective!

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Fall Words Reading Tree

Greek mythology offers up some of the most epic tales ever. This Greek mythology tree activity introduces him to some of the main characters in Greek mythology.

Greek Mythology Tree

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Create Your Own Pumpkin Person!

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Write a Letter to Santa Claus

A Sonia-Inspired Activity: Poetry Read-Alouds

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Gotcha! A Punctuation Readaloud Game

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Papier-Mâché Characters

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

Holiday Thank You Cards

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Plan Stories with The Five-Finger Technique

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Backyard Field Guide

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Put on a Poetry Party!

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Three Legged Compound Word Race

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

"I'm Not Bored!" Book

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Autumn Symbols Drawing Game

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find. 

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