Language Arts Activities
Language Arts can be made fun and exciting! When students are presented with interesting and challenging language arts activities, literacy is improved as well as their knowledge of the world around them.
Fact Frenzy has found a great resource that contains some Language Arts Activities and lesson plans that students can use to hone their language arts skills.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has developed a list of Language Arts Activities and lesson plans, through EDSITEment. As their website aptly touts, “The Best of Humanities on the Web”, there are activities and lesson plans to be found that range in subjects from Art & Culture, Literature & Language Arts, Foreign Language, and History & Social Studies.
Some of the Language Arts activities and lesson plans, to name a few, can be found at EDSITEment.
A four-part fascinating lesson dealing with the origins of writing!
- Lesson One: The Phoenicians and the Beginnings of the Alphabet
- Lesson Two: The Greek Alphabet: more familiar than you think!
- Lesson Three: The Alphabet: The Roman Alphabet is our Alphabet
- Lesson Four: The Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans, and Us
Born on a Mountaintop? Davy Crockett, Tall Tales, and History
Not only does this have some great literature arts activities, but some fun facts (the kind of stuff we love here at Fact Frenzy).
Objectives include:
- Name tall tale characters and locations, which are based on actual people and places, and describe how they are used in an exaggerated way.
- Name created characters and events from tall tales.
- List some of the literary characteristics of tall tales.
- Write a tall tale.
Poems that Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost
Students explore questions and mysteries in chosen poems of Robert Frost through suggested activities.
Language Arts activities deal with:
- Literary Terms
- “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”
- Writing an Imaginary Narrative
- Performing the Poetry of Robert Frost
Talk about excitement! What student wouldn’t find great interest in seeing the historical events fused together with fantasy in some of the familiar stories, with a bit of role playing thrown in?
Language Arts activities include:
- Setting the Stage
- The Sword in the Stone
- The Chivalrous Knights of the Round Table
- Excalibur
- The Holy Grail
- Sailing to Avalon
Of course, these are only four that we’ve selected as examples. However, it seems like there are hundreds more to choose from, if not more. The full list of Language Arts Activities can be found EDSITEment.neh.gov. (Be sure to choose the link to Literature and Language Arts) Visit the website
More about EDSITEment: (quoted from their “about” page)
EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities… The EDSITEment website has been accepted into the Smithsonian Institution’s Permanent Research Collection of Information Technology.
Sources: EDSITEment Literature & Language Arts
