2nd - 5th Grade Common Core English Language Arts Worksheets

Use this fill-in-the-blank worksheet to help your first and second graders practice verbs!

Use this resource to assess your students’ ability to determine word meanings from context clues.

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

Sharpen your students' eyes for proofreading with this quick spelling quiz!

Students will learn fun facts about animals while making inferences about nonfiction text.

Find out how to help the Earth with our Earth Day fill-in-the-blank. With this awesome Earth Day activity, you and your kid can save the planet!

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

Students may know they can blend colors or food, but did they know they can blend letters too? Learn to use common consonant blends in this engaging worksheet! 

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about soul music and the history of African-Americans in pop music, all in this Hip-Hop Music worksheet!

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph. With this worksheet, students will read the paragraphs carefully then circle the statement that best fits the paragraph's main idea.

Write your own unique story with silly nouns, verbs, adjectives, and more! 

Learners will use context clues to determine the correct homophone for each of eight sentences.

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

Sparks students' creative thinking with this Earth Day-themed reflective writing prompt.

Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

Explore different types of sentences with this helpful grammar worksheet!

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

Distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds is one of the first steps in mastering vowels. Gauge student understanding of long and short vowels with this review activity.

If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying cause and effect.

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

As your students complete this reading comprehension exercise, they will learn about their lungs while practicing active reading skills.