Reading/English Language Arts in Grade 2
During second grade, students gain more skills in reading, writing, and listening. Students continue to learn and practice rules for decoding words, and they learn new concepts — such as prefixes and suffixes — that help them figure out the meanings of new words. Students spend time with books or articles on factual subjects such as science and history.
For grade 2 students, writing is an exciting way to use new words to express ideas. Students learn how to write clearly and revise what they write. They become more confident speakers and listeners as they learn to paraphrase, clarify, explain, and report on information they hear.
TOPICS COVERED
Reading/English language arts standards cover the following eight topics, or strands.
Expectations for what a child should be able to do increase from one grade to the next.
• Using and understanding spoken words (Language Development)
• Moving from spoken language to print (Beginning Reading)
• Getting facts from books and other writing (Informational Text)
• Learning from and enjoying stories, poems, and plays (Literary Text)
• Using materials to find out information (Research)
• Using written words to share information, ideas, and feelings (Writing)
• Getting information from television, film, Internet, or videos (Media)
• Knowing how to spell and use grammar correctly (English Language Conventions)
WHAT YOUR CHILD SHOULD KNOW
BY THE END OF GRADE 2, YOUR CHILD SHOULD KNOW AND BE ABLE TO PERFORM:
1. Relate an important event in life or describe personal interests — keeping focus on the topic and speaking at an understandable speed.
2. Use simple prefixes (such as un- or re-) and suffixes (such as -ful and -ly) to determine the meanings of words.
3. Identify the two words that make up a contraction (such as haven’t = have + not). Read contractions accurately.
4. Read aloud grade-appropriate material accurately and with comprehension.
5. Use text features such as the title, table of contents, and headings to make predictions about the content.
6. Restate key facts from a story or article.
7. Identify the causes and effects of events in a biography.
8. Identify differences among literary forms such as poetry, drama, and nonfiction.
9. In composition, identify ways to make points clearer, more logical, or more expressive.
10. Capitalize all proper nouns. Capitalize words at the beginnings of sentences and greetings.
HOME ACTIVITIES
1. Encourage your child to read aloud to you. Suggest titles such as Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse, by Leo Lionni; Henry and Mudge First Book, by Cynthia Rylant; and Brave Irene, by William Steig.
2. Take your child to the library as often as possible. Ask a librarian to help you find books about a place or activity that your family enjoys.
3. Encourage your child to send thank you notes and other kinds of friendly letters to family and friends.
4. Read a book together, then watch a video of the book. Ask your child to describe how the book was different from the video.
Grade 2 Reading Course Outline
Second Grade English/Language Arts Worksheets
Missing
Vegetable Vowels Worksheet 3122 -
Students will fill in the correct vowel to complete the spelling of
each vegetable. Aligns to Common Core Standards FR.2.b
Using
Is or Are -
complete each sentence using the correct word
Using
We or Us -
complete each sentence using we
or
us
Finish
the Sentences
Ocean
Fun
Story
Solutions
Verbs
#1
They
Sound the Same
Making
New Words -
Worksheets A and B
Chauncey
Chicken -
/ch/ and /sh/
Question
the Grimm Brothers
Homophones
#2
Homophone
Story
Homophones
#1
Alphabetize
Dolch Words -
2nd grade
Halloween
Sentences
Short
A Sound Word Shapes -
word shapes/tiles worksheet
Suffixes
Words
With Two Meanings -
second grade
Story
Sequencing -
2 page worksheet
Noun
Clown -
grammar worksheet
Word
World -
vocabulary worksheet
Rhyming
Fun
Alphabetical
Order
Compound
Words #2
Compound
Words
Parts
of Speech 2 -
recognizing verbs, nouns, adjectives
Parts
of Speech -
recognizing verbs, nouns, adjectives
Contractions
Contraction
Cards for
the worksheet above.
Dinosaur
Reading Comprehension
Penguins
Reading Comprehension
Dinosaur
Reading Comprehension
Vowel
Detective
Second Grade Social Studies Worksheets
Miscellaneous Second Grade Worksheets
Droofus
the Dragon Crossword Puzzle
Fun
with Droofus the Dragon -
vocabulary, word usage
How
Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head
By
Bill Peet
Droofus the dragon is a "big lunk of a thing"
who is loved by a young boy. The King wants to display the dragons
head in the palace. An amusing story of how Droofus loses his head,
if only for a moment. A nice story about compromise and friendship.
Spelling Worksheets 51-100
Spelling Words #51 - asked, felt, place, air, often, large, going, form, us, until, food, few
Spelling Words #52 - identity, self, description, human, person, youth, youngster, adolescent, childhood, infant
Spelling Words #53 - usually, am, talk, river, matter, house, keep, box, fun, boring
Spelling Words #54 - keep, kept, ride, rode, spoke, speak, get, got, meet met
Spelling Words #55 - difficult, remember, learned, brought, gather, tough, short, true, truth, spread
Spelling Words #56 - idea, turn, morning, evening, pattern, beautiful, low, gold, bottom, job
Spelling Words #57 - great, glorious, magnificent, extraordinary, especially, fabulous, fantastic, superb, excellent, wonderful
Spelling Words #58 - holiday, season, summertime, break, rest, loaf, bread, sublime, limit, horrible, terrible, truly
Spelling Words #59 - language, translate, speech, vocabulary, philology, dialect, slang, pronounce, immerse, jargon
Spelling Words #60 - promote, damage, marvel, rough, tumble, coin, magazine, template, marvelous, superior
Spelling Words #61 - congratulations, graduate, primary, college, collage, collate, diploma, certificate, degree, commencement
Spelling Words #62 - swift, slow, fictitious, genuine, comic, tragic, complex, simple, fierce, meek
Spelling Words #63 - suddenly, quickly, speedy, tidy, immaculate, neat, chaos, turmoil, gait, velocity
Spelling Words #64 - suggest, dangerous, fortnight, precious, corner, determine, motivate, reality, familiar, familiarity
Spelling Words #65 - boat, anchor, island, swim, safety, mast, ski, engine, sail
Spelling Words #66 - independent, document, rights, equal, declaration, redress, unalienable, government, prudence, petition
Spelling Words #67 - steel, steal, bail, bale, cause, caws, chews, choose, pause, paws, role, roll
Spelling Words #68 - sprout, stem, leaves, root, seed, stigma, flower, stamen, pistil, stigma
Spelling Words #69 - ridiculous, silly, crazy, conform, conformity, condone, toot, spout, reject, reflect
Spelling Words #70 - monarch, monopoly, refuse, accept, regulate, magnify, hasten, false, debt, ballot
Spelling Words #71 - mischief, exhaust, between, knuckle, including, included, satisfied, satisfying, satisfactory, recited, recite, return
Spelling Words #72 - toaster, breakfast, cereal, wheat, cinnamon, bowl, spoon, eggs, juice, milk, apple, banana
Spelling Words #73 - sleeve, exclaim, excuse, exit, invite, daily, gelatin, locate, location, hike, area, arena
Spelling Words #74 - beneath, commission, salvage, demonstration, affectionate, commend, cement, commit, wither, gather
Spelling Words #75 - scream, whisper, solid, liquid, below, above, before, after, opinion, fact, masculine, feminine
Spelling Words #76 - gavel, judge, secretary, typewriter, horse, jockey, teacher, pencil, pilot, airplane, captain, compass
Spelling Words #77 - sentiment, prior, twilight, ugly, buffalo, creature, capture, customer, custom, fondly
Spelling Words #78 - preface, appendix, index, contents, spine, bibliography, introduction, dedication, glossary, chapter
Spelling Words #79 - boar, bore, carat, carrot, dual, duel, peddle, pedal, meat, meet, rye, wry
Spelling Words #80 - disguise, disgust, hiding, hidden, disgusting, opportunity, statement, question, distinguish, extinguish
Spelling Words #81 - crunch, rude, joust, rap, victorious, escalate, relay, cherish, version, battle, engage
Spelling Words #82 - train, caboose, boxcar, engine, freight, switchman, coupler, wheels, sidetrack, whistle
Spelling Words #83 - soil, plant, oxygen, sunlight, bud, bug, aphid , worm, organic, compost
Spelling Words #84 - salad, lettuce, spinach, olive, mushroom, onion, alfalfa, broccoli, cauliflower, tomato
Spelling Words #85 - politely, eagerly, justly, lightly, sadly, wildly, rapidly, actively, cutely, deeply, exactly, greatly
Spelling Words #86 - tame, wild, forward, back, noise, silence, fat, thin, formal, casual, sweet, bitter
Spelling Words #87 - excel, excellence, depend, prefer, preference, expand, expandable, regret, regrettable, dependable, refer, reference
Spelling Words #88 - easily, truly, absurdly, fondly, sincerely, lavishly, definitely, boldly, eagerly, regretfully
Spelling Words #89 - peace, left, dirty, shallow, rich, fast, narrow, polite, front, able, game, air, dot
Spelling Words #90 - slick, stick, thick, flip, fix, cricket, nickel, hit, chip, twins, drip, ship
Spelling Words #91 - gloss, moss, boss, toss, nod, trot, throng, blond, sock, donkey, goggles, follow
Spelling Words #92 - go, drop, tie, wet, hat, outside, umbrella, puts, dry, lift, raining, wants
Spelling Words #93 - mittens, birthday, always, buddy, says, sometimes, coming, ease, makes, special, tries, backward
Spelling Words #94 - faster, hoop, dance, twirl, jumps, spin, skates, skate, watch, champ, winner, compete
Spelling Words #95 - giggle, fingers, everywhere, wiggle, toes, face, listened, monster, laughed, name, looked, listen
Spelling Words #96 - doesn't, happy, jolly, asks, boxer, poodle, everyone, collie, even, kinds, mutt, bit
Spelling Words #97 - belong, hotel, focus, pupil, begin, music, behind, become, motel, cabin
Spelling Words #98 - combination, action, motion, section, nation, attention, production, quotation, relation, information
Spelling Words #99 - farmer, useful, softly, suitable, lonely, quietly, thankful, readable, nicer, safer, harmful, playful
Spelling Words #100 - blooming, stamping, leaving, taking, getting, swimming, hoping, hurrying, saving, swinging, winning, competing