15 free english resources for Year 2, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
English develops reading, writing, spelling and grammar together. Strong readers write better, and students who understand sentence structure read with more understanding. Our English resources separate those strands so you can target the one that needs work, while reading passages, writing prompts and grammar activities all reinforce one another.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Children learn that an adjective is a describing word that tells us more about a noun: its size, colour, shape, feel or taste. They pick…
Children learn that we add -ed to many verbs to show something has already happened. They change today-verbs into yesterday-verbs, pick…
Children learn to tell a question from a statement and to end questions with a question mark. They sort sentences, add the right end mark,…
Children learn that a complete sentence needs a 'who or what' (the subject) and a 'what happens' (the verb), and that it makes sense on…
Children learn to separate the items in a list with commas, with 'and' before the last item. They pick the correctly punctuated sentence,…
Short, focused tasks for home practice.
Some of the most common verbs do not take -ed in the past: go becomes went, see becomes saw, eat becomes ate. Children match the present…
Quick checks for understanding.
A quick ten-question check of the grammar and punctuation covered in Year 2: nouns, verbs, adjectives, past tense, capital letters,…
A passage with questions.
Two children build a backyard cubby just as a storm rolls in. Children answer literal questions, make inferences about how the characters…
A step-by-step procedure for a favourite Australian party food. Children practise reading a list of ingredients and numbered steps,…
A short information report about wombats: where they live, what they eat and why their pouch faces backwards. Children locate facts,…
Prompts with planning space and success criteria.
Children imagine the strangest pet they can think of and write a story about the day it causes trouble. The planning questions guide them…
A first information report. Children choose an animal they know well and write facts about what it looks like, where it lives and what it…
Word lists with practice activities.
Twelve verbs with the endings -ing and -ed, including words where the last letter is doubled (running, hopped) or the e is dropped…
Twelve plural nouns that end in -s or -es. Your child learns when to add -es (after s, x, ch and sh sounds) and when a plain -s is enough,…
Twelve words with the vowel teams oa (boat), ai (rain) and ay (play). Your child learns that ai usually sits in the middle of a word and…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.
Resources tagged NAPLAN practise the same text types and skills NAPLAN assesses. They are NAPLAN-style and not official test papers.