English Activities for Grade 1 and 2

Home English Activities for Grade 1 and 2

Phonics

  • Letter-Sound Hopscotch
  • Post-It Bingo
  • Syllable I Spy
  • Paper Plate Phonics
  • Sight Word Puzzle
  • Beanbag Letter Blend Toss
  • Sight Word Island Hopping
  • Consonant Blend Scavenger Hunt
  • Syllables
  • What’s in a Name?
  • Pin the Tail on the Silent E Word
  • Double “ee” Eel to Practice Phonics
  • Bowling for Phonics

Vocabulary

  • Flash Cards
  • The Build-a-Word Card Game
  • Dictionary Treasure Hunt
  • Verbs Relay Race
  • Compound Word Art
  • Materials Scavenger Hunt
  • Homonym Adventures
  • 100 Words: Word Building
  • Learning Opposites
  • Crossword
  • Scrabble Crossword
  • Dumb Charades
  • Nursery Rhyme Madlibs

Reading

  • Gold Hunt
  • Story Ball: A Reading Comprehension Game
  • Visual Bookmarks
  • Reading Tour
  • Reading with Newspaper “Highlights”
  • Reading with a Word Hunt
  • Story Sequencing Activity
  • Basic Reading Comprehension
  • Questions, Anyone? Reading Comprehension
  • Straight Face
  • Reading Chart
  • Reading Stories
  • Lemonade
  • Sandwich Making

Writing

  • Nonsense Book
  • Father’s Day “How To” Book
  • Paint and Learn
  • Story From an Ant’s Perspective
  • Punctuation Red Light, Green Light
  • Gotcha! A Punctuation Read-aloud Game
  • Headline Sentences
  • Cartoon Rearrangement
  • Picture Description
  • Cartoon Caption Filling
  • Scripts out of Moral stories
  • Punctuation Drops
  • Android Speech Detection
  • Morning Routine
  • Concrete Poem For Mom

Social

  • Let your kids campaign
  • Career Book
  • Blanket Fort
  • Pen Pal Postcards
  • Classroom Pop-Up Book
  • Lace a Face
  • Swahili (Tamil) Counting Book
  • Paper Chain American Flag
  • Job Hats
  • Planning a Vacation
  • Body Language
  • Transformations
  • Presentations
  • Goal Setting
  • Traffic
  • Problem Solving
  • Personal Histories
  • Creating Timetables
  • Righties turn Lefties
  • Becoming Teachers
  • Team Building
  • Tidying Up
  • Diwali Mela
  • Toy Day
  • Piggy Bank
  • Table Etiquettes

Field Trips

  • Visit to a Farm and River
  • Visit to a Fire Station / Police Station
  • Visit to Garbage Dump / Sewage Treatment Plant
  • Visit by Vegetable Vendor
  • Visit by Mechanic
  • Visit to Museum and Zoo
  • Visit to Construction site
  • Visit to Shopkeeper
  • Visit to kabaddi walla