2nd Grade Vocabulary Resources

Build your first grader's vocabulary skills by reviewing synonyms and antonyms together.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Using a picture as a clue, kids put two words together to make a compound word for each item on this reading worksheet.

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

Try a crossword puzzle where all the answers are opposites of their clues!

Students will gain insight into the meaning of compound words as they break each word into its two different parts.

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.

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

On this second grade reading worksheet, kids practice adding "s" or "es" to singular nouns to change them to plurals.

Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Students will seek to distinguish between—and determine the meanings of—simple similes and metaphors with this multiple choice activity.

Use this worksheet to practice determining the meaning of the new word formed when a prefix is added to a base word.

This worksheet on prefixes will advance your student's reading comprehension and grammar skills.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

With the help of picture clues, kids will find two words that make a single compound word. Have your child put "sun" and "flower" together in this worksheet.

Looking at prefixes, suffixes, and root words can help readers find meaning. Even young readers can start to build their vocabulary from prefixes and suffixes. In this activity, students will create words by combining prefixes, suffixes, and root words.

This second grade reading worksheet features common synonyms. Kids connect a word in the first column with its synonym in the second column.

Do your students understand which word to use in context? Check your students' abilities to understand and differentiate between homophones with this simple dictation exercise.

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

Children practice working with synonyms by matching eight pairs of adjectives in this grammar worksheet.

Students will practice using dictionary guide words by matching words to the pages they would appear on.

Use this resource to give your students practice using guide words to determine a word’s location in the dictionary.