Budding writers can get a grasp on contractions with this practice sheet. Break down contractions into their original words, and vice versa!

How are your students doing with the spelling patterns you’ve taught this year? This assessment, meant for spring of second grade, will allow you to gauge your students' familiarity with common words and spelling patterns.

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

It’s more fun to revise with a partner! After writing personal narratives, have students share their writing with a partner. Partners should identify at least three parts in the narrative where three descriptive details could be added.

Exercise your child's mind and their vocabulary with this challenging word scramble. They'll use their logic and reasoning to figure out each word.

It's time for a fun word challenge! This word scramble will help your child build spelling skills as well as basic problem-solving skills.

For verbs ending in E there's a simple spelling rule to remember: just add D to make the verb past tense.

There are 19 words relating to road trips that are hidden in the word search. Can you find them all?

Are those leaves falling from the sky? It must be fall! Rake up the scrambled letters to spell out words related to the autumn season.

Read a simple tale about pirates and stolen treasure, then chart the story on a map.

Does your child have a wild imagination? Give them a fun outlet with a creative writing prompt! This one asks them to imagine a hidden door they've discovered.

Engage learners in colorful phonics practice with this "schwa" vowel sound sorting worksheet!

In this playful grammar worksheet, children are invited to think about how they would describe something that they can see.

Learn to draw a mehendi motif as you practice your script handwriting.

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Challenge your students to unscramble all ten of these basketball words. They won't even realize that they're practicing their spelling and logic skills!

How well does your beginning reader know his parts of speech? Here's a great activity to give him a review of pronouns.

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

Did you know there are four different types of sentences? Get to know the most common one with this declarative sentence activity.

Enjoy part two of this classic Christmas tale. Your little dancer can experience the magic of the Nutcracker with this storybook she can color herself!

What does your whiz kid like more: mazes or rhymes? Well, give her both!

On this second grade reading worksheet, kids practice adding "s" or "es" to words to change them to plurals. Then they find the plurals in a word search.

Have your students record new words they come across on this bookmark and jot down what they think they mean.

Make your mark with this cursive practice worksheet.

Help students improve peer writing conferences with this reflection exercise. Students will think critically about the feedback they received, discussing the comments they found most and least helpful. Afterwards, have them share their best peer feedback!

Learn more about your students' favorite school subjects with this engaging opinion writing prompt and rubric. Students will contemplate their favorite subject while they fill out the pre-writing planner, then they'll write out their essay on page two.

Having interviewed their classmates, students will practice their expository writing skills describing what they learned in complete sentences.

Stay positive with an exercise on complimentary adjectives. Your child can build your kid's vocabulary as he fills in the blanks to make these sentences shine.