Search Printable 2nd Grade Language and Vocabulary Worksheets

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.

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

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.

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.

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

Let's get wacky with our sentences! This worksheet challenges students to follow certain rules to create sentences while learning about different types of words, such as comparatives, possessives, and more.

Challenge your beginning reader to practice making compound words! He'll match one set of words with another set to create a list of compound words.

Kids will make compound words out of two smaller words. Make "gold" and "fish" into "goldfish in this fun compound words 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.

On this reading worksheet, kids connect words in the first column to words in the second column to make compound words. Then they write the words.

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

Give your students practice matching up abbreviations with their corresponding words! With this worksheet, your young readers will have fun figuring out the abbreviated versions of words like April and President.

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

In this grammar worksheet, learners will refer to a word bank to complete six sentences with the correct homophones.

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Help your students review root words so they can analyze unfamiliar words and figure out the meaning without using a dictionary. In this worksheet, students will identify the root of each word containing suffixes and prefixes.

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into lager-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

Challenge your students to demonstrate their understanding of rural, urban, and suburban communities with this vocabulary worksheet.

Children will enjoy testing their tech savvy with this technology terminology worksheet.

Kids will find the correct homophones, or words that sound the same but have different meanings. Learn the difference between "see" and "sea" in this worksheet.

Learn all about compound words with this worksheet. Your second grader will match two words together to form a compound word.

Abbreviations help keep things short and sweet! Give your second graders practice identifying common abbreviations with this fun matching activity in which students draw lines to match words to their abbreviations.