Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Learn to identify first, second, and third person perspective in writing!

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

This open-ended worksheet helps second graders form predictions about books before they read them.

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

Use this civics and government worksheet to help second and third graders learn about elections!

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Your second grader can create his own presidential seal by coloring in this fun printable page.

Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

In this reading fluency worksheet, second and third graders read a story about a sleepy sloth, then answer simple reading comprehension questions.

Use this reading worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

Did you know the basking shark is the second largest living fish? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the Basking Shark!

In this biography worksheet, children are introduced to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who in 1993 became the second female Justice of the Supreme Court in the United States.

In this historical heroes worksheet, second and third graders read a short passage about Owens' life and legacy, then answer the comprehension questions to help determine their understanding.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

This worksheet gives students an opportunity to reflect on what they have read in an open-ended way.