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It's fact vs. opinion statements about interesting animals in this workbook. Kids will also think about how diagrams and images help clarify reading passages.

Text Detective: Weird Animals

This workbook is packed with worksheets that will help students practice the core concepts featured in the second grade curriculum, from word study and math to reading and writing.

Get Ready for Second Grade

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

Main Idea of a Story Worksheet

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph. With this worksheet, students will read the paragraphs carefully then circle the statement that best fits the paragraph&#39;s main idea.

What's the Main Idea?

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

Graphic Organizer Template: Bubble Map

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

The world is full of amazing creatures! Learn about a few from around the globe, as your child hones reading skills in this fact-filled workbook.

Animals of the World

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

The Ocean

Did you know there are 6 simple machines that make up every complicated gizmo out there? This book introduces the pulley, the lever, the screw, the wedge, the inclined plane and the wheel & axle.

Simple Machines

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Compare and Contrast: Platypus

Get your hands dirty in the name of science! Explore the basic elements of the earth's surface with this beginner's guide to rocks, soil, and processes that change them.

Can You Dig It: Rocks and Soil

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

Finding the Topic and Main Idea of a Nonfiction Text

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Make a Timeline of an Influential Person

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Finding the Purpose

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web

Facts about ostrich include that they are the largest birds in the world and that they can't fly, but that's not all. Learn all about this amazing bird!

Facts About Ostrich

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

Nonfiction KWL Chart

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Where's the Evidence?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Vocabulary Cards: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

Question Tracker

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Sun Notetaking

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Glossary: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

This worksheet teaches kids the importance of notetaking while reading using the shape of a well-known object: a tree!

Tree Notetaking

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

A Special Gift from Grandpa

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Unknown Words

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

Glossary: Unknown Words

This quick story of Captain Kidd brings pirates and reading on an adventure for your kids!

Captain Kidd

Kids show off their reading comprehension skills with this quiz, written to recall details from the informational text Flightless Birds.

Flightless Birds Reading Comprehension

This worksheet gives students an opportunity to reflect on what they have read in an open-ended way.

Shapes Notetaking

How many legs does a pistol shrimp have? Kids answer questions about Symbiotic Relationships in this reading comprehension quiz.

Symbiotic Relationships Reading Comprehension

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