2nd grade reading worksheets 15 sheets
Stories and fact passages for second graders, on the Moon and the Sun, animals and how plants grow, each on one page with four questions and lines to answer on, with the vowel team sheets grade 2 reads with and a story map. Print one, change it on its own page, or take the whole set as one PDF with the answer keys at the back.
The whole set in one PDF
All 15 sheets on this page, after a contents page, with the answer keys together at the back: 30 pages.
15 sheets
Stories 2
Fact passages 10
Wild Turkeys
Facts from the Missouri Department of Conservation, 168 words, with four questions and an answer key.
Common Core RI.2.1
From Egg to Chick
Facts from Poultry Extension, 183 words, with four questions and an answer key.
Common Core RI.2.1
Our Star, the Sun
Facts from NASA, 143 words, with four questions and an answer key.
Common Core RI.2.1
How a Pumpkin Grows
Facts from University of Maryland Extension and University of Illinois Extension, 164 words, with four questions and an answer key.
Common Core RI.2.1
The Northern Leopard Frog
Facts from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 162 words, with four questions and an answer key.
Common Core RI.2.1
How a Seed Starts to Grow
Facts from the Missouri Botanical Garden, 142 words, with four questions and an answer key.
Common Core RI.2.1
Garden Spiders
Facts from the Missouri Department of Conservation, 164 words, with four questions and an answer key.
Common Core RI.2.1
How Apples Grow
Facts from University of Minnesota Extension, 156 words, with four questions and an answer key.
Common Core RI.2.1
Honey Bees
Facts from University of Florida IFAS Extension, 151 words, with four questions and an answer key.
Common Core RI.2.1
Phonics and stories 3
Building words with ee, oo, ea, ar and ir
Pictures to name and spell from jumbled letter tiles, as moon, bean and bird.
Common Core RF.2.3.b
Story map
Boxes for the characters, the setting, the problem, the main events and how it ends.
Common Core RL.2.5
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How the passages are chosen
Each passage is placed by the three things the Common Core weighs in a text: a readability score (Flesch-Kincaid, whose range for the grades 2 to 3 band is 1.98 to 5.34; these read at about 2.7 to 4.5), how the text is built and the words it uses, and what the questions ask of the reader. A child who reads easily can go on to the next grade’s page, and one who needs more practice can go back a grade; choose by how the child reads, not only by grade.
The questions
Every passage has four questions: two are answered in the text itself, one asks what happened or why, and the last has no single right answer, so the key gives a sample. Ask the child to point to the sentence that helped. The card names the standard the questions practise: RL.2.1 and RI.2.1, asking and answering questions about the key details.
After reading
The story map asks for the characters, the setting, the problem, the main events and how it ends: the beginning, middle and end that grade 2 asks a child to describe. Use it after one of the stories, or after a book read at home.
The whole set
The set prints every sheet on this page once, in the order shown, after a contents page that lists them with their page numbers. The answer keys come together at the back, so you can hand out the passages and keep the keys apart. On its own page, each passage can be printed alone, in bold type for a young reader, or on A4.