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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!

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.

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.

Hard and Soft C

On this second grade reading worksheet, kids sort initial consonant sounds into two groups: hard "c" as in cookie, and soft "c" as in celery.

-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?

Contraction Action

Kids write the two words that make up each contraction on this second grade reading and writing worksheet.

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.

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.

Dr. Seuss Word Search

Can your child find the names of some of Dr. Seuss's most outrageous creatures in this word search?

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.

Practice Reading Vowel Digraphs: aw

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

Fix the Sentences: Rainy Day

These sentences about rainy day fun have errors. Kids rewrite the sentences using correct capitalization and punctuation on this second grade writing 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.

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.

Animal Word Search: Mammals

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

Scrambled Sentences: Fish Friends

These sentences are looking pretty fishy. None of them make sense! Can your child unscramble them so that they're grammatically correct?

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.

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.

Word Transporter: Adjectives and Nouns

Which nouns are described by the adjective? In this silly parts of speech game, kids drag nouns to the adjective word transporter that they're described by.

Hard and Soft G

On this second grade reading worksheet, kids sort initial consonant sounds into two groups: hard "g" as in goose, and soft "g" as in giraffe.

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.

Verbs with "-ing"

Introduce your child to the present progressive tense! Have him complete these sentences by adding "ing" to verbs so they talk about on-going actions.

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.

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