2nd Grade Informational and Expository Writing Worksheets

Use these paragraph topic prompts to help your child practice writing a paragraph.

This paragraph writing worksheet gets your child back to the basics of writing. In this paragraph writing worksheet, kids will write using a graphic organizer.

Share all about yourself with this getting-to-know-you writing activity!

In this fun essay-writing activity, young writers will complete a graphic organizer to plan their thoughts, then refer to it to write a short opinion piece about their favorite dinner.

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

Describe and draw mom in this fill-in-the-blank Mother's Day worksheet!

Whether your student is new to paragraph writing, or needs more practice, this worksheet is a wonderful introduction, practice, or review.

Use this reading and writing worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

Describe and draw dad in this fill-in-the-blank Father's Day worksheet!

Super powers and saving the world will make any child want to write! Your third grader will learn about adding supporting details to their main idea.

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Budding essayists will practice organizing their ideas using the template and prompts on this worksheet.

Clue your child into the anatomy of a house! She'll use the word bank to fill in the names of each room.

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.

Encourage your second graders to develop a well-reasoned argument about the length of recesses with this writing prompt and rubric. Students can use the pre-writing planner to develop their argument, then they'll write out their opinion on page two.

Families in the United States live in all different settings. Kids think about the similarities and differences between rural and urban life on this worksheet.

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Second graders love food! Help your young writer share their opinion about the best kind of food using this helpful paragraph organizer. Fair warning, this activity might make you hungry!

When Christina Koch and Jessica Meir traveled to the International Space Station in October 2019, they went down in history as having completed the first all-female spacewalk. Children can learn about this momentous trip with the help of this worksheet.

More and more schools are beginning to celebrate the 100th day of school. Help your child list her biggest accomplishments from the first 100 days of school.

This open-ended worksheet inspires students to research fascinating inventors!

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.

Find out how to help the Earth with our Earth Day fill-in-the-blank. With this awesome Earth Day activity, you and your kid can save the planet!

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

Writing nonfiction can be a daunting task for newbies, but this note-taking sheet contains helpful prompts that keep your young writer on track.

This worksheet is a brief introduction to the human rights activist and feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes.

Teach your kids about the importance of preserving freshwater ecosystems with a lake habitat coloring page filled with frogs, turtles, ducks, and dragonflies.

Second graders love field trips! Help them share their opinion about the best field trip location while using this handy paragraph organizer.

Use this nature journal to inspire kids to get outside and learn in the great outdoors!