17 free reading resources for 2nd Grade, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Reading comprehension is about more than finding the answer in the text. Students need to read literally (what does it say?), inferentially (what does it mean?) and evaluatively (what do I think, and why?). Each passage here comes with questions at all three levels and model answers for the open ones.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Children meet synonyms (words that mean the same or nearly the same) and antonyms (words that mean the opposite). They choose and match…
Children sort words into groups that share a meaning, such as fruit, animals, clothes and weather. They spot the odd one out, name the…
Children discover that some words have more than one meaning, such as bat, bark and ring. They use the rest of the sentence to work out…
Put words in alphabetical (ABC) order, first by the first letter, then by the second and third letters. Starts with the most common words…
Join two small words to make a compound word, and split compound words into their parts. Starts with the most common words and the…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
Choose the word that means the same (synonym) or the opposite (antonym) to build vocabulary. Starts with the most common words and the…
Put words in alphabetical (ABC) order, first by the first letter, then by the second and third letters. Expected-level practice with the…
Join two small words to make a compound word, and split compound words into their parts. Expected-level practice with the main spelling…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
Choose the word that means the same (synonym) or the opposite (antonym) to build vocabulary. Expected-level practice with the main…
Put words in alphabetical (ABC) order, first by the first letter, then by the second and third letters. A challenge set with trickier and…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
Choose the word that means the same (synonym) or the opposite (antonym) to build vocabulary. A challenge set with trickier and irregular…
A passage with questions.
Two children build a backyard fort just as a storm rolls in. Children answer literal questions, make inferences about how the characters…
A short information text about the nine-banded armadillo, the state small mammal of Texas. Children find facts about its armor, how it…
A friendly letter from a boy visiting his grandmother on the Texas Gulf Coast to his best friend back home. Children find facts, learn the…
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.
