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2nd Grade Reading & Writing Learning Resources

Second graders need to grow comfortable using tricky letter pairings that include diphthongs, digraphs, and silent letters. Education.com’s phonics and sentence building worksheets will help them avoid these pitfalls. Once students demonstrate a mastery over these concepts, mix in third grade reading and writing resources that include longer reading comprehension activities and activities that build students’ confidence in utilizing irregular verbs.

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Main Idea of a Story Worksheet

This main idea worksheet guides your child through reading comprehension practice. Download today to get started!

The Ant and the Grasshopper

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

Vowel Pairs Cat Food Spelling

How fast can you make vowel pair words and feed Roly? Kids race against the clock to spell as many words as possible in this fast-paced game.

Scrambled Sentences: Crazy Cakes

Get a head start on grammar with this sentence building worksheet. Kids unscramble crazy cake sentences and put the words in an order that makes sense.

Silent "e" Worksheet

Silent "e" worksheets are important to phonics success. In this silent "e" worksheet, kids learn how to make silent "e" words out of long vowels sounds.

Find the Adjectives

Hit a home run with your child while learning about adjectives.

Practice Reading Vowel Digraphs: aw

Help your beginning reader practice decoding tricky "aw" words with this complete the sentence worksheet.

-ed and -ing Endings

Basic verb tenses include writing words with -ed and -ing endings. Can you and your child spot the the right verb tenses on this worksheet?

Types Of Sentences

Use this lesson to introduce your class to four kinds of sentences, and how understanding and using different types of sentences allows writers to control the tone of their sentences.

Nouns and Verbs Sort

It's snack time! Kids master different parts of speech in this interactive grammar game. They must sort nouns from verbs in the vending machine.

Word Search for Kids: Under the Sea

Find all of the words relating to the sea in the word search, circle them, and make sure to cross them off the list.

Grammar Time: Irregular Verbs

Help your second grader get to know the irregular verbs to be, to do, and to have with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

Let's get to know you! Have your beginning writer complete this activity all about her, a great way to build confidence in herself and in her writing.

Bossy R Words Spelling

Bossy R words feature r-controlled vowel sounds. Help kids learn how to properly sound out and spell these words in this interactive game.

Practice Reading Vowel Diphthongs: ow

Help your second grader master sounding out and reading "ow" words like cow and towel.

Animal Word Search: Mammals

Teach your little scientist about warm-blooded animals with this fun printable word search.

Story Comprehension: What's in a Story?

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

Preposition Practice

Find the pets and perfect your prepositions as well.

Practice Reading Vowel Diphthongs: ew

Give your second grader practice reading and decoding "ew" words with this worksheet that asks her to choose the word that completes each sentence.

Sentence Spinner

Help kids create complex sentences by adding prepositional phrases and wacky adjectives to simple sentences in this sentence spinner game.

Long O Words Spelling

What letter combinations make the long O sound? Kids practice common long O spelling patterns in this interactive bus stop game.

Animal Adjective Game

Huge, gray, and heavy ... it's an elephant! Kids match adjectives to animals in this whimsical parts of speech game.

Story Comprehension: What Happens Next?

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

Summer Memories

Spark your student's imagination with this fun and creative writing prompt which focuses on summer.

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