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This set of 2nd grade reading comprehension worksheets contains printable passages, poems and stories within the scope of literature, informational text and foundational skills as set by the common core. Ensure kids understand the overall structure of a text, figure out the main purpose of a poem or story, and answer questions with 'who', 'what', 'where', ' when' as well. Kids gain a lot of practice in sequencing events, decoding common prefixes and suffixes with the worksheets here. Grab some of these handouts for free!

I am currently a 2nd grade teacher at a public school in Arkansas, with 7 years of teaching experience. I hold a Master's Degree in Elementary Education, and am certified for P-8. I also hold a P-12 certification in ESL. I have taught 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th grade. 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets. A collection of reading passages and questions for 2nd graders. 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets. A collection of reading passages and questions for 3rd graders. 5th Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets. A collection of reading passages and questions for 5th graders. The reading passages are written on a middle-of-the-year 4th grade Reading Level. This makes the passage ideal for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students, as 3rd grade students can focus on reading closely with harder texts, and 5th grade students can focus on making sure to read simple texts closely.

Books not only inform and educate, they can be real fun too. This printable pdf introduces contractions and kids dig deep into the story with MCQ and extended answers, a requisite in Common Core.

The Liberty Bell symbolizes American freedom. The informational passage prepared for grade 2, walks your child through varied question formats like MCQs, questions using 'what' and 'where' and much more.

After a long wait, The Tooth Fairy is there and there's the bright coin too! Help kids learn to sequence events, skilfully describe the setting and correlate events in the poem with their experiences.

Do you know that not all animals are day-active? This intriguing article provides kids the basic knowledge of night-active animals. Test comprehension with a variety of questions that follow.

What would you do, if you woke up to a tail in your back? Let kids read the poem, and encourage them to understand how words and phrases supply rhythm in a poem and recount a part of the text as well.

The ELA worksheet pdf hammers home the idea that books are a man's best friend. Brandon is amazed as the books start talking. Find out how Brandon responds to the books and answer the questions too.

Kids never have enough of fantasy; have a riot teaching the poem! Here's an endeavor to acquaint the child with the overall structure of a poem, teach a new phrase, and reiterate rhyming practice as well.

This is an inspirational account of a board game played by a family on a weekend. Kids answer the 'who' and 'what' of the 'Friendly battle' and attempt reflecting on their own life based on what they read.

Find out how, in order to please the aliens, a child meets some strange requests. The pick of this 2nd grade reading worksheet is the adjectives, and there are questions on key details of the poem and also on rhyming words.

If you could become someone else, what would it be? The printable comprehension worksheet elucidates how a character responds to its own wishes and teaches topic-specific adjectives.

To become skilled readers, children must have strong base in phonics. Phonics helps students to quickly sound out a word. After enough practice, reading sounds becomes automatic.

By 3rd grade, children are expected to read grade level text about 90% accurately, meaning if students are stumbling over sounding out words then they will be unable to remember the meaning of the story. Phonics at this grade becomes very sophisticated, sometimes called “Word Study”, and involves sounding out long words (opponent, advantage), identifying silent letters, and learning complex spelling patterns (moisture, creature, fixture) to help improve their writing.

The ultimate goal is that your child will be able to read words or sound them out quickly and automatically. In 3rd grade children are expected to read longer, more complex words and words that are not spelled how they sound.

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Shift Your Mindset

Often parents fall into the thinking: “The school will teach my child everything they need to know! I’ll leave it to them.” Although it may feel better to not carry this burden, the burden will be shifted onto your child. Teachers need you on their team. They need your help practicing reading at home, building your child’s confidence in their work and giving them the much needed practice all kids require to be strong readers. They also need you to speak up when you see your child falling behind.

How Many Changes Can You Make?

Give your child a “root” or base word, like do

Now see how many ways your child can add a prefix or suffix to create a new

word. For example: undo, redo, doing, doable, and done.

Prefixes are sets of letters that are added to the beginning of a word. A suffix is added to the end.

Find a Word Within a Word

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If your child has a hard time reading long, unfamiliar words, show them how to cover up part of the word to break it into smaller chunks. For example, the word “cabinet”. Cover up the “cabi” part so they can first read “net”. Then cover up “net” so they can read “cab-i”. Now put the sounds together.

We Love Reading!

Remember, we want children to develop a love of reading, so focus on finding books they want to read.

Listen to Your Child Read Daily

Children need a lot of practice reading to reinforce phonics skills, so make a point to listen to them read every day and offer them corrective feedback when you hear them stumble.

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For example:

“I noticed you weren’t sure how to read “enable”. Let’s break it up into chunks en/able. Do you know what “able” means? It means you have the skill or power to do something. You are able to roller skate. Now if we add “en” it means to allow or give help to do something. Using roller skates enables you to get to the park really quickly! Can you use the word enable in a sentence?

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Use phonics games to help build kids’ “decoding” or sounding out skills. This will make your child a stronger and faster reader.