Abbreviations help keep things short and sweet! Give your second graders practice identifying common abbreviations with this fun matching activity in which students draw lines to match words to their abbreviations.

Looking for some extra abbreviation practice for your young readers? You've come to the right place! In this activity, your students will draw lines between common words and their abbreviations.

Assess student understanding of common spelling patterns for vowel sounds with this quick sorting exercise. Young readers will read words and then write them out in the appropriate column for long or short vowel sounds.

Need a little extra contraction practice? You've come to the right place! Kids can work on combining two words to make one in this contraction activity. This can also be used as an assessment!

Help your kids improve their cursive with this handwriting worksheet. Students are given five words to trace and then write on the space provided.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

As students begin to read independently, they may have questions about what they read. These questions should be encouraged! Have students record their questions about their reading or any unknown words on this graphic organizer.

It's time to check in on those spelling skills! Gauge your second graders' growth in common spelling patterns by comparing this spelling assessment to their back to school test with the same words.

This easy St. Patrick's Day word search is perfect for your little leprechaun. This easy St. Patrick's Day word search contains words like "jig" and "green."

An inventive twist on the crossword, the Cross-Number Puzzle uses math to fill in the blanks instead of words (some say it's easier that way!).

An inventive twist on the crossword, the Cross-Number Puzzle uses math instead of words to fill in the blanks (some say it's easier that way!).

An inventive twist on the crossword, the Cross-Number Puzzle uses numbers instead of words to fill in the blanks (some say it's easier that way!).

Adding "ed" or "ing" to a word that ends in a consonant can be tricky. Practice choosing the correct spelling of words ending in "ed" or "ing".

Give your second graders some practice with long vowel word families and spelling patterns with this colorful activity! Students will identify long O words based on picture clues, then determine the spelling pattern of each word.

Kids will decide where to put apostrophes in contractions with this rainbow-themed activity. Students will be given a pair of words and the corresponding contraction, but they'll be responsible for filling in the missing apostrophe. They'll be contraction

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.