Free 2nd Grade ELA Worksheets for Teachers

2nd grade phonics and fluency review: circle short or long for cat, cake, fish and tree, match un, re and ing, then read a knight story aloud.

2nd grade fluency passage: The Winter Stash, a squirrel and blue jay story to read aloud twice, with eight comprehension questions and an answer key.

2nd grade two-syllable decoding: split robot, tiger, spider and pilot after the long vowel, then circle open-syllable words in three sentences.

2nd grade tricky words bingo: four 4 by 4 cards with 24 irregular words like through, enough and caught, plus teacher caller clues for each.

2nd grade vowel teams: sort clown, show, owl and crow by the ow in cow or snow, then fill ow into four picture sentences. Answer key included.

2nd grade prefix and suffix sort: 16 words like untie, replay, thankful and slowly go into un-, re-, -ful and -ly columns. Answer key included.

2nd grade reading comprehension: The Little Fox's Big Challenge, a story about a scared fox crossing a river, with four questions on character and lesson.

2nd grade nonfiction text features: label a frog book spread with glossary, index, caption, subheading, bold word and photograph. Answer key included.

2nd grade author's purpose exit slip: read a short cheetah passage, choose answer, explain or describe, and finish a sentence. Three slips per page.

2nd grade who, what, where, when, why and how questions: two short stories about a treehouse and a kitten, then students write their own questions.

2nd grade central message: The Greedy Squirrel fable, with nine questions on story structure, the word ashamed and the lesson about sharing.

2nd grade Venn diagram comparing Cinderella and Yeh-Shen: sort nine details, like the fairy godmother and fish bones, into each story or both.

2nd grade opinion writing: choose a unicorn or a dragon, give two reasons with because, and or also, then draft a paragraph and check it.

2nd grade informative writing frames: complete a honey bee report from a fact box, then write a mini-report about an animal. Answer key included.

2nd grade small moment narrative: plan a seed story with three questions, pick time-order words, write it, then check it against a four-point list.

2nd grade opinion paragraph writing with Point, Evidence, Explain, Link: a recess model, a summer or winter paragraph and a class hamster task.

2nd grade writing mind map: choose a big topic and fill six branches, from Who Was There to Sensory Details, before drafting a personal narrative.

Spelling practice pages that help 2nd grade students apply learned patterns to new words. Aligned to the Common Core (L.2.2d), covering objectives such as: generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words. Free to download, edit, and print on Chalkie.ai.

2nd grade grammar review: irregular plurals like mice and feet, past tense verbs hid, told and sat, and capitals and apostrophes in two sentences.

2nd grade irregular plural nouns: fill 12 blanks in a nature park story, from children and geese to deer, sheep and wolves. Answer key included.

2nd grade adjectives or adverbs: sort slow and slowly, choose loud or loudly, and write sentences with quick and quickly. Answer key included.

2nd grade collective nouns matching: pair flock, herd and litter with pictures, then match pod, swarm, pack and pride to their groups. Answer key.

2nd grade contractions and apostrophes homework: a family letter, then 18 items on don't, you're, Jess's hat and its or it's. Answer key included.

2nd grade irregular past tense sort: put sit, sat, went and goed into present, past and fake word columns, then add a new verb pair. Answer key.

2nd grade vocabulary review: add un- or re- to words, build birdhouse and rainbow from pictures, and order big, huge and gigantic by strength.

2nd grade context clues: fill ten blanks in a camping story from a 12-word bank with two extras, plus a scalding soup bonus. Answer key included.

2nd grade dictionary entry labeling: name the guide words, entry word, part of speech, definition and example sentence on a sample page. Answer key.

2nd grade root word families word search: find careful, careless, helper, helpless, unhappy and retell in a 12 by 12 grid. Answer key included.

2nd grade prefix meanings: define, draw and use rebuild, unhappy, preheat and disobey in four-part word boxes with non-examples. Answer key.

A crossword puzzle where every answer is a compound word 2nd grade students build from two smaller ones. Aligned to the Common Core (L.2.4d), covering objectives such as: use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words. Free to download, edit, and print on Chalkie.ai.