2nd grade Genre Writing Printable Worksheets

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

What if your child were President? Get your learner's political mind pumping with a writing activity about what they would do as President of the United States.

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

After learning about a predator/prey relationship in the wild, students can use these organizers as a pre-writing exercise for informational paragraph writing. Students will use action verbs and adjectives to describe their predator and prey.

Use this paper template to create a miniature lantern with your own wishes for the coming year.

This worksheet walks second and third graders through the steps of planning and writing a persuasive paragraph, from selecting a topic to forming an opinion and providing reasoning for their opinion.

This worksheet helps list ways to conserve natural resources by starting out each sentence with an idea.

Traditions are an important part of a family’s culture. They signify what they think, how they behave or do something, and they are passed down from generation to generation. Does your learner know all about their family traditions? Use this worksheet to

Help your students prepare to write about their favorite book with this opinion writing organizer. This handy worksheet breaks down opinion writing into easy-to-follow steps that will have your kids writing persuasive essays with ease in no time.

Help your students develop and prepare a well-reasoned argument with this handy organizer! First students will choose a topic that they feel strongly about, then they'll explain the reasons for their opinion and practice writing a concluding statement.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Surprise! Young writers are prompted to write a personal narrative about a time they were surprised. Students will practice sequencing and prewriting skills as they use this fun watermelon-shaped graphic organizer to plan out their personal narrative.

Dialogue moves narratives along and can add much-needed drama to otherwise stagnant writing. In this worksheet, students get a chance to practice writing dialogue to add to their personal narratives.

Fall is the perfect time to let your child’s imagination go wild as they design and write about their very own pumpkin person. This worksheet provides a great way to gets kids excited about both Halloween and creative writing!

With this worksheet, students will read a short text about Malala Yousafzai's fight for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan, and then answer questions about the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

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.

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

Looking for an alternative activity to ignite the imaginations of your reluctant writers? Use this fun comic book template to introduce creative writing to your students. Novice writers and artists alike will delight in the chance to create their own comi

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Children will create a timeline of a parent, grandparent, or loved one with this biography template.

Adding dialogue to writing makes for more entertaining and relatable story-telling. In this activity, young writers will use a fun comic book format to add simple dialogue to their personal narratives.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Use this worksheet to help students write sentences about the first African American women to enter space, Mae Jemison.

This poetry worksheet is sure to get your child's creative juices flowing! Students will seek to write their own limerick by filling in blank spaces for nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Then they'll add an illustration to complete their poem!

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!