The 4th of July can be a day of both fun...and learning! Especially when you make it a day filled with tough-to-find, holiday-themed words.

Action words make writing pop! Through this activity, your second graders will practice using action verbs to tell an engaging story about what they did at recess.

Do some fun wordplay with this suffix worksheet. Kids will add a suffix to the end of three different words to show that they have a linguistic connection.

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.

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

Kids will find the correct homophones, or words that sound the same but have different meanings. Learn the difference between "see" and "sea" in this worksheet.

Are your second graders struggling with irregular past tense verbs? Not to worry! Use this practice worksheet to help your students confidently use those tricky words in context.

These sentences are each missing a word, and each missing word has the long "i" sound! Your child will choose words from the box to complete each sentence.

Help students get to know irregular plural nouns like the backs of their hands. Students will identify which words on this worksheet get irregular when the noun changes from singular to plural.

Let's get wacky with our sentences! This worksheet challenges students to follow certain rules to create sentences while learning about different types of words, such as comparatives, possessives, and more.

That letter R can sure be bossy! Give your kids some extra practice with r-controlled vowels by having them identify the correct spelling-sound correspondences of these common words.

Ask your readers to keep track of new, interesting, or unknown words with this vocabulary tracker. Students will use the tracker to write the word, the sentence they found it in, and a short definition.

Learning to use sensory words effectively is such an important skill for a budding writer. n this activity, students will use sensory adjectives from a word bank to breathe life into ordinary sentences.

Use this handy graphic organizer to help students figure out how many parts make up a whole. Then they'll write out their answers using a helpful number words word bank.

Irregular past tense verbs are tricky, but a little practice can go a long way! Use this worksheet to help your students understand how to use those tricky words in context.

Help your students get a handle on tricky verb tenses by providing them with extra practice! Students will transform words into present participle and past tense before drafting their own sentences.

Double consonants are everywhere! Explore -ff, -zz, -ll, and -ss double-consonant words with this engaging cut-and-paste worksheet for first and second graders.

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!

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.

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.

In this worksheet, students seek to define "restorative justice" in their own words and draw a picture to represent the concept. They then work together to generate a list of ideas to help implement restorative justice in the classroom.

Kids choose from the diphthongs oi, oy, ou, and ow to fill in the missing letters in the words on this second grade reading and writing worksheet.