Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

This open-ended worksheet helps second graders form predictions about books before they read them.

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

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

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

In this worksheet, second and third graders will practice two important reading fluency strategies: rereading and rereading aloud.

Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

In this reading fluency worksheet, second and third graders read a story about a sleepy sloth, then answer simple reading comprehension questions.

Use this reading worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

In this historical heroes worksheet, second and third graders read a short passage about Owens' life and legacy, then answer the comprehension questions to help determine their understanding.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

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.

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

It's almost Christmas time! Get your child to let his holiday excitement out with this Christmas Eve writing prompt.