Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

Children see firsthand the power of descriptive adjectives in this grammar worksheet.

Help your student practice story organization with this exercise, where they'll identify the supporting details that properly support the main idea.

Practice identifying advanced formatting features found in nonfiction, including titles, headings, and subheadings.

Review and practice writing dialogue with your students. Choose from three situations and create an original dialogue for the characters in one of them.

This fun two-page worksheet supports students as they learn to use commas correctly in written correspondence.

This checklist creates a healthy habit of evaluating any typed writing. Students will check for font, spacing, indentation, illustrations, grammar, and areas of improvement.

A soccer ball flies toward the goalie, but what happens next? Let your budding writer create his own story, using this picture prompt as a starting point.

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.

Compound words are like puzzles. In this worksheet, your students will match words to create compound words.

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

The silverback gorilla is a special animal. This magnificent male is part of an endangered species. Complete this sheet to learn all about this gentle giant.

Sail away to the exotic and mysterious Easter Island!

Give your students practice matching up abbreviations with their corresponding words! With this worksheet, your young readers will have fun figuring out the abbreviated versions of words like April and President.

Invite learners to practice their argumentative writing skills with this writing prompt about allowing teachers to hold classes outdoors!

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Oh no, this story has gotten all jumbled! Practice recognizing story order by putting these panels back together.

Learn how, with the addition of a suffix, everyday words can transform into completely new ones.

Write your own Abraham Lincoln biography using a simple essay template.

Get into the story and decide what happens next. How's it going to end? That's upto your fourth grader!

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Students will define eight pairs of homographs, then select two additional homograph pairs of and use them in a sentence.

Help your young student practice perfect punctuation with this worksheet. He'll practice placing periods, question marks and exclamation points.

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

Learners will practice writing the contractions for ten phrases, then the phrases for ten contractions.

Can your second grader pick the correct compound words to complete these sentences?