2nd and 3rd Grade English Language Arts Worksheets

Reinforce reading comprehension skills with this simple practice quiz!

Use this fill-in-the-blank worksheet to help your first and second graders practice verbs!

Use this resource to assess your students’ ability to determine word meanings from context clues.

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

From nature hunts and rock painting to recycled art and poetry writing, these activities combine scientific exploration with arts and crafts projects.

Sharpen your students' eyes for proofreading with this quick spelling quiz!

Find out how to help the Earth with our Earth Day fill-in-the-blank. With this awesome Earth Day activity, you and your kid can save the planet!

In this worksheet, children discover what plastic is, how it is manufactured, as well as its history and about attempts to reduce plastic waste.

Practice writing letters, numbers, and simple sentences with this handwriting paper template!

Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

Students may know they can blend colors or food, but did they know they can blend letters too? Learn to use common consonant blends in this engaging worksheet! 

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph. With this worksheet, students will read the paragraphs carefully then circle the statement that best fits the paragraph's main idea.

Write your own unique story with silly nouns, verbs, adjectives, and more! 

Build your first grader's vocabulary skills by reviewing synonyms and antonyms together.

Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

Sparks students' creative thinking with this Earth Day-themed reflective writing prompt.

Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.

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.

Try this synonyms worksheet with your student. This synonyms worksheet gets your child to find words with the same meanings.

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

Distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds is one of the first steps in mastering vowels. Gauge student understanding of long and short vowels with this review activity.

If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

Children practice spelling and alphabetizing sight words in this handy practice worksheet.

Your students will practice using sentence clues to identify the meaning of homographs.

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

Try a crossword puzzle where all the answers are opposites of their clues!