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2nd grade reading & vocabulary
Unit 1: fairy tales retold, unit 2: the moon, unit 3: rural, suburban, urban.
Grade 2 Worksheets
Download these Grade 2 Worksheets and use them in class today! These worksheets are all designed to help second-grade students develop their English grammar and vocabulary skills and cover topics that are typically studied by grade 2 students. As always, these worksheets are free to use in your lessons! Choose a topic below to get started.
Articles Worksheets: A / An / The
These worksheets are designed to help grade 2 students practice using the articles ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’.
Adjective Worksheets
In second grade, students learn about different parts of speech. These worksheets provide practice exercises that ask students to identify and use adjectives.
Singular And Plural Noun Worksheets
To complete these worksheets, students will be asked to identify and write down singular and plural nouns.
Irregular Plural Noun Worksheets
There are many nouns that are irregular and don’t follow the normal plural rules. These worksheets will help students to learn and memorize irregular plural nouns.
Common And Proper Noun Worksheets
Another common topic for grade 2 is common and proper nouns. These worksheets are designed to help students identify and use common nouns and proper nouns correctly.
Person Place Or Thing Worksheets
These worksheets are designed to help learners understand different types of nouns. Students must sort the nouns into person, place, or thing.
Collective Noun Worksheets
These worksheets are all designed to help students use collective nouns correctly.
Sentence Practice Worksheets
These worksheets are designed to help grade 2 students practice forming sentences.
Telling The Time Worksheets
These worksheets are designed to help students tell the time in English. Students will be asked to read and write the time in English and draw the time on blank clock images.
Word Searches
These word searches all focus on vocabulary that grade 2 students typically study.
Reading Comprehension Worksheets
These worksheets are great for helping grade 2 students improve their reading comprehension. Each worksheet has a short, fun passage followed by some comprehension questions.
Curriculum / ELA / 2nd Grade
English Language Arts
2nd Grade ELA Course Summary
In 2nd Grade English Language Arts, students explore how differences can be celebrated, and learn how both animals and humans interact with the world around them to survive. Students build social-emotional skills in Belonging and Friendship , Finding Your Power , and Stories of Immigration , explore how lessons from traditional stories can be applied to their own lives in Cinderella Around the World, learn how animals adapt in Exploring Habitats , and explore how body systems keep us healthy Inside the Human Body . In each unit, students engage in process-based writing projects connected to the core texts that develop their narrative, informational, and opinion writing skills.
Using authentic, engaging texts, teachers help students develop their language comprehension and address grade-level reading, writing, language, and speaking and listening standards. Over the course of 2nd Grade ELA, students deepen their understanding of the world around them through thematically-aligned, knowledge-building units, embedded daily writing instruction , and frequent opportunities for in-class discussion .
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2nd Grade Standards Map
Pacing Guide
2nd Grade Book List
Recommended Sequence
Cinderella around the world.
Students read multiple versions of the fairy tale Cinderella, challenging them to think about how the culture, or setting, of the story influences the plot, and examining the setting and characters.
Exploring Habitats
Students explore various habitats (forest, desert, water, rainforest, and wetland), investigating how plants and animals survive within them, and compare and contrast the information that they gather.
Belonging and Friendship: Pinky and Rex
By connecting with the characters from the easily relatable series Pinky and Rex, students learn that it's okay to be different and consider what it means to be a good friend.
Stories of Immigration
In this unit students explore immigration by reading a series of narrative nonfiction and fiction texts that highlight the experiences of early and recent immigrants.
Finding Your Power: Freddie Ramos
Students continue to build reading and writing skills by engaging with the beginning chapter book series Zapato Power.
Inside the Human Body
Students study two important body systems, the digestive and urinary systems, through a variety of informational texts and hands-on projects.
Alternate Units
Alternate Unit 2
Awesome Insects
Students learn about insects and their impact on the natural world by asking and answering questions about informational texts in order to become inquisitive, active readers.
Alternate Unit 3
Lessons from Anansi the Spider
Students read, discuss, and write about spider — or Anansi — folktales from West Africa, which have been used for generations to teach lessons about human nature and the consequences of good and bad behavior.
Alternate Unit 4
People Who Changed the World
In this unit, students improve reading and writing standards and skills as they explore biographies of famous leaders and change agents.
Alternate Unit 5
Learning From Mistakes: Keena Ford
In this unit students explore the concepts of honesty, forgiveness, and friendship by reading Freckle Juice and Keena Ford and the Second-Grade Mix-Up .
Solving Mysteries: The Fenway Foul-up
Students explore the characteristics of a mystery, and how an author uses those characteristics to develop the plot, while reading about the American pastime of baseball in the text The Fenway Foul-Up .
Alternate Unit 6
Exploring Ancient Greece
In this unit, students explore ancient Greece, learning and exploring the different characteristics of ancient Greece and its values.
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