2nd Grade Reading Worksheets : Page 9

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Put your students' reading skills to practice with this rock 'n' roll themed worksheet! Ask your students to read the story, then answer questions about the events in the story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress from the South, and was an inspiration to all involved in American politics.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

How do you know when it's wintertime? Have your child complete this winter writing prompt to exercise writing skills and reinforce seasonal knowledge.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

This worksheet teaches kids the importance of notetaking while reading using the shape of a well-known object: a tree!

Introduce your child to Momotaro, a popular Japanese folktale! Your child will get to make her own story book by coloring the illustrations.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Enlist the famous Beatrix Potter in helping your child develop solid reading strategies.

This great brain teaser challenges your child to unscramble president names and a riddle. It's a fun Presidents Day worksheet featuring Mount Rushmore!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Have your young reader describe and compare three of their favorite book characters in this triple-sided Venn diagram.

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

Your second grader can create his own presidential seal by coloring in this fun printable page.

The Nutcracker story tells the tale of a girl who discovers some Christmas magic. Color in The Nutcracker story with your child and make your own holiday book.

If your clever learner loves tangram puzzles, here's a fun worksheet to teach him the history behind the puzzle!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.