Search Printable 2nd Grade Common Core Language and Vocabulary Worksheets

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

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.

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

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

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.

Help your child monitor their progress as readers with this reading goals worksheet. The act of reflecting and goal setting will set students up for reading success!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

This civics and government worksheet helps second and third graders learn facts about elections and practice identifying key vocabulary terms.

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

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.

Use this worksheet to evaluate peer conversations when students are participating in collaborative conversations.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.