Your second graders will love practicing words like rake, gain, and lane with this BINGO game.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Use this graphic organizer to introduce your students to a root word or affix of your choice.

Color in the spooky candles with your young learner, as they practice using prepositions in sentences.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

Children will learn how and when to use quotation marks in dialogue and titles, then practice what they have learned.

Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

Students will learn about the life history of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, in this introductory civics worksheet.

Take a historical tour of Spain, home of the Running of the Bulls! Learn all about this Spanish-speaking country's diverse regions, dialects, and traditions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Score as many points as you can by heeding the coach’s advice! Students will score points for each correct comparative and superlative.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Kids will celebrate Valentine's Day by writing about a time when they felt loved. Try this Valentine's Day creative writing prompt with your child.

Have a blast completing this mouth-watering writing exercise by writing down the steps you would take to create the perfect ice cream sundae.

Homophones got your second grader down? This colorful worksheet will open her eyes to some common grammar errors, and improve her spelling ability.

Use this resource to support your students as they work to break down words with inflected endings into the base form in order to successfully find a word’s definition.

Everyone's heard the story of the ugly duckling, but have you met his new friend, the beastly bird? Help students learn about the importance of transition words when telling a story with this fun tale of outcasts who become fast friends!

Children will enjoy pairing two balloons together to create a compound word in this vocabulary-boosting worksheet.

Can your second grader complete these sentences by deciding which words are compound, and which aren't?

Enlist the famous Beatrix Potter in helping your child develop solid reading strategies.

Meet Narcissus, a handsome and self-centered demi-god who stars in his own tragic Greek myth.

Does your second grader need a grammar boost? If homophones have her troubled, some extra practice is all she needs to get the concept down.

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19–23 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide! 

This worksheet is a review of dialogue punctuation. Add quotation marks and commas where they are missing in the sentences about ice cream sundaes.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

Here's a fun and challenging way to learn about wordplay! Find the homograph that goes with each picture and written clue.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

If you could choose just one word to best describe yourself, what word would it be?