2nd Grade Reading Worksheets : Page 3

This reading stamina chart can be used to help students track and increase the amount of time they can spend reading to themselves during independent reading.

Facts about ostrich include that they are the largest birds in the world and that they can't fly, but that's not all. Learn all about this amazing bird!

Dig your hands into some earth science with this soil sheet! Your little scientist can hone his reading skills as he learns what soil is and how it is formed.

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

Use this civics and government worksheet to help second and third graders learn about elections!

Practice those reading skills with the story of "The Three Little Pigs"! This classic tale provides a great starter for reading comprehension.

Encourage thoughtful media consumption with this set of television show comprehension questions.

Keeping a reading log is a great way to encourage your child to set goals and track their progress. Your students will build reading fluency and stamina by logging and graphing their reading time.

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it's waved.

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

Help your child monitor their progress as readers with this reading goals worksheet. The act of reflecting and goal setting will set students up for reading success!

Discover the inner workings of basic earth science in this worksheet on temperature.

Count the syllables in the limericks in this poetry worksheet!

Children learn the inspiring life story of historical hero Frederick Douglass, who rose from slavery to become a preeminent leader of the abolitionist movement, in this worksheet.

Read about how the capybara live and other interesting facts about capybara. Sure to satisfy your curiosity about capybaras!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Building Fluency with Punctuation.

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Your students will use this two-sided worksheet to practice distinguishing between facts and opinions. As they do, they’ll have fun learning about howler monkeys!

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Little readers, practice alphabetizing with this fun activity! Kids can put these scrambled words in alphabetical order to create a complete sentence.

Reading nonfiction can be tricky, whether read individually or as a group. Young readers will be asked to match common text features to the correct illustrated features in this tree-themed activity.