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2nd Grade Writing Strategies Worksheets

Young writers discover strategies for creating compelling introductions that capture a reader's interest in this writing worksheet.

Tips for Writing a Good Beginning Sentence

Chinese language learners match characters to pictures in this basic phrases matching activity. Students look at four lines of dialogue, then draw a line to the corresponding illustration.

Learn Chinese: Basic Phrases Match

Children will read simple pasta directions, then select the correct transition words from the choices shown.

Adding Transition Words

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

Sensory Words

Increase your student&#39;s ability to spot incorrect grammar with this Sentence Fixer worksheet. Students will practice their capitalization, punctuation, and dialogue skills to fix up this set of sentences.

Sentence Fixer

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Character Changes Order

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!

The Ugly Duckling's New Friend

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

Read the Word Clues

Help your students solidify their use of transition words with this cute version of the classic ugly duckling story. By helping to fill in the missing transition words throughout the narrative, students will flex their sequencing and organization skills.

Narrative Transition Words & Phrases

Fall is the perfect time to let your child’s imagination go wild as they design and write about their very own pumpkin person. This worksheet provides a great way to gets kids excited about both Halloween and creative writing!

All About My Pumpkin Person

Make personal narrative and dialogue prep a breeze with this organizer! Students will practice sequencing and prewriting as they put together their personal narrative about a time they were surprised by something or someone.

Personal Narrative: Surprise!

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.

Personification

Use this worksheet to evaluate peer conversations when students are participating in collaborative conversations.

Formative Assessment: Speaking and Listening

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Personal Narrative: Adding Dialogue

Young editors will read "Josie's Garden" and add commas, periods, and quotation marks. Practice with punctuation perfectly in this punctuation worksheet.

Punctuate the Story: Josie's Garden

Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

Dialogue & Drama

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Glossary: Making Predictions and Summarizing

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Vocabulary Cards: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Your students have been working hard on their descriptive writing skills! Assess student growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric that asks students to use their five senses to describe a place they have visited.

Descriptive Writing Check-in

Children add more transition words to their sequencing arsenal in this word-sorting worksheet.

Time Transition Word Sort

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

Brainzy Presents: The Amazing Adventures of Floyd and Roly

Floyd and Roly are best friends and neighbors! Help your child stretch his writing skills with this fill-in-the-speech-bubbles worksheet.

Brainzy Presents: Floyd and Roly's Amazing Adventures

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Make That Dialogue Pop!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Predictions and Summarizing

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Glossary: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

Glossary: Create Your Own Story

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

Vocabulary Cards: Create Your Own Story

Transition words are essential to good writing! They provide structure and organization by connecting ideas and sentences. Help your students become familiar with common transition words with this fun word search!

Transition Word Search

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Hyperbole Meaning

Oh no! Cuz-Cuz is in Roly's food! It's up to your child to figure out why by adding text to the characters' speech bubbles.

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2nd Grade Writing Strategies Worksheets