Free Year 2 English Worksheets for Teachers

Year 2 reading comprehension about Pip the robot, lost in the garden grass. Pupils order four events and answer inference and prediction questions.

Year 2 inference worksheet: The Missing Wellies story with 8 questions on retrieval, feelings and evidence. Answer key included.

Year 2 non-fiction reading worksheet with minibeast and castle texts, 11 retrieval questions, a True or False table and a marked answer key.

Predicting worksheet for Year 2: three short stories, five questions on sensible predictions and text clues, with example answers. Free to print.

Year 2 fairy tale sorting worksheet: pupils sort 12 story events into beginning, middle and end, then add their own. Answer key included.

Year 2 poetry vocabulary worksheet on glimmer, breeze, whisper and enormous. Pupils define, draw, find synonyms and write a line.

Year 2 adventure story writing frame: plan in a Who and Where table, write in the past tense, then self-check with a four-point list.

Year 2 story planning storyboard with six panels from The Beginning to The Ending, plus three planning questions. Free printable sheet.

Year 2 proofreading exit ticket: fix 'where is my frend' and 'Yesterday, we play football', then rate the lesson. Three tickets per sheet.

Year 2 instruction writing worksheet: finish steps for a jam sandwich and handwashing, then write your own. Bossy verbs, time words, model answers.

Year 2 recount writing worksheet using Point, Evidence, Explain, Link. Pupils write about Sports Day and a real trip. Model answers included.

Year 2 Spelling Safari: add -ful and -less, choose see or sea and blew or blue, and make contractions like didn't and I'll. Free to print.

Year 2 common exception words worksheet: Look, Cover, Write, Check for 12 words, joined handwriting, gap-fills and a dictation sentence.

Year 2 suffix sorting worksheet: pupils sort 15 words ending in -ment, -ness, -ful, -less and -ly into boxes, then add their own.

Year 2 spelling worksheet on suffixes: drop the e, change y to i or double the letter. Hoping, flies, biggest, patting. Answers included.

Year 2 contraction apostrophes worksheet: fill 12 gaps in a rainy-day story with it's, can't, won't and more, then spot a possessive.

Year 2 homophones worksheet: knight and night, to, too and two, there, their and they're, quiet and quite, plus a sun and son sentence.

Year 2 space grammar worksheet: add end punctuation, sort statements, commands and exclamations, and write expanded noun phrases.

Year 2 past and present tense check: sort verbs, choose went or go, use is and was, and fix the wrong verb in a beach story.

Year 2 sentence types worksheet: sort 12 sentences into statement, question, command and exclamation, then write your own. With answers.

Year 2 conjunctions worksheet: match sentence halves joined by and, but, or, because, when and if, then write your own. Answers included.

Year 2 expanded noun phrases worksheet: fill 14 gaps in The Dragon's Cave story from a word bank, then write your own. Full answer key.

Year 2 commas in lists worksheet: spot the right comma use, fix a zoo sentence, write a party list and rate yourself. Free printable.