Free Year 2 English Worksheets for Teachers

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Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension

Practise reading comprehension with this free, printable Year 2 worksheet. Aligned to the Australian Curriculum, covering objectives such as: discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present ideas. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customisable for your class.

Phonics and Spelling
Phonics and Spelling

Phonics and Spelling

This Year 2 phonics and spelling worksheet is ready to print and use in class. Aligned to the Australian Curriculum, covering objectives such as: use most letter-sound matches including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns and silent letters. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.

Writing
Writing

Writing

Help your Year 2 students build writing skills with this editable worksheet. Aligned to the Australian Curriculum, covering objectives such as: create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features. Sign up free to Chalkie.ai to adapt this for your class.

Grammar and Punctuation
Grammar and Punctuation

Grammar and Punctuation

An Australian Curriculum-aligned Year 2 worksheet covering grammar and punctuation, including objectives such as: understand that simple connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence. Fully editable on Chalkie.ai. Sign up free to customise.

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By Year 2, students are reading longer texts, spelling trickier patterns and writing for three distinct purposes: to imagine, to inform and to persuade. These Year 2 English worksheets cover reading comprehension, phonics and spelling, writing, and grammar and punctuation, matching the Australian Curriculum v9.0 for the year.

The objectives behind each worksheet are spelled out on the page: discussing characters and settings and how language presents ideas, using letter-sound matches including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns and silent letters, drawing on growing knowledge of text structures, and connecting ideas in compound sentences.

Teachers use these Year 2 English worksheets across the literacy block: comprehension pages after shared or guided reading, spelling pages for word work rotations, and writing scaffolds for independent writing time. Any page can be edited in Chalkie before printing, which is handy for swapping texts or word lists to match your current unit, and regenerated as many times as you need.

What Year 2 English covers

  • Reading Comprehension

    Students discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present ideas.

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  • Phonics and Spelling

    Covers using most letter-sound matches, including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns and silent letters, when spelling.

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  • Writing

    Focuses on creating short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features.

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  • Grammar and Punctuation

    Students learn that simple connections can be made between ideas by joining clauses in a compound sentence.

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