Search Printable 2nd Grade Language Worksheets

In this worksheet, learners will complete a camping-themed word search puzzle, then answer a prompt inviting them to describe their favorite camping activity or memory.

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.

Using a picture as a clue, kids put two words together to make a compound word for each item on this reading worksheet.

Build your first grader's vocabulary skills by reviewing synonyms and antonyms together.

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.

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

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

Find the hidden words that relate to the beach in the word search.

This second grade reading worksheet features common synonyms. Kids connect a word in the first column with its synonym in the second column.

Compound words are just words that are made by putting two smaller words together. With this worksheet, students will work backwards from definitions to guess the compound words and expand their vocabulary.

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.

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.

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

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.

Expand your first grader's vocabulary by learning about synonyms.

Children practice working with synonyms by matching eight pairs of adjectives in this grammar worksheet.

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

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

After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language skills.

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.

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

Let's get as silly as a goose with these similes! Students will get creative as they finish simple similes with this introductory worksheet. After they finish, give them a chance to share their favorites with the class!

Each sentence on this second grade reading worksheet has an underlined word, and kids select the opposite of that word from among three word choices.

Learning homophones helps kids build vocabulary, comprehension, and spelling skills. Our homophones worksheet helps kids learn words like "sail" and "sale."