2nd Grade Worksheets
Free printable 2nd grade math and reading worksheets with answer keys, matched to Common Core standards.
19 skills · 190 printable sets · every set has an answer key.
English language arts
What your child practises here, in the order the skills build on each other. See the full ELA list →
Capitalization and Punctuation
Starting sentences with a capital letter and ending them with the right punctuation mark.
10 sets · 12 items each
Contractions
Combining two words into one shorter word using an apostrophe in place of missing letters.
10 sets · 20 items each
Nouns and Verbs
Telling whether a word names a person, place, or thing (noun) or names an action (verb).
10 sets · 20 items each
Prefixes and Suffixes
Adding a word part to the front (prefix) or end (suffix) of a root word to change its meaning.
10 sets · 18 items each
R-Controlled Vowels
Recognizing that a vowel followed by r doesn't make its usual short or long sound — the ar in car, the ir in bird.
10 sets · 20 items each
Vowel Teams
Reading two vowels together that make one sound — the ai in rain, the oa in boat.
10 sets · 20 items each
Math
What your child practises here, in the order the skills build on each other. See the full math list →
Adding Three Numbers
Adding three numbers in one problem.
10 sets · 20 problems each
Addition With Regrouping to 100
Two-digit addition where the ones column crosses ten — 47 + 38.
10 sets · 20 problems each
Addition Within 100
Adding two-digit numbers where the ones do not carry — 34 + 25.
10 sets · 20 problems each
Arrays and Repeated Addition
Seeing objects in equal rows and writing the total as repeated addition.
10 sets · 12 problems each
Comparing Three-Digit Numbers
Comparing three-digit numbers: hundreds first, then tens, then ones.
10 sets · 20 problems each
Counting Coins
Adding up coins to find a total in cents: a quarter is 25, a dime 10, a nickel 5 and a penny 1.
10 sets · 12 problems each
Even and Odd Numbers
Even numbers can be split into two equal groups, or into pairs, with none left over. Odd numbers always leave one.
10 sets · 20 problems each
Place Value: Hundreds
Reading three-digit numbers as hundreds, tens, and ones.
10 sets · 20 problems each
Repeated Addition
Seeing 4 + 4 + 4 as three groups of four, written 3 × 4.
10 sets · 20 problems each
Skip Counting
Counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, and beyond.
10 sets · 20 problems each
Subtraction Within 100
Two-digit subtraction that requires regrouping — 52 − 27.
10 sets · 20 problems each
Telling Time to 5 Minutes
Reading a clock to the nearest 5 minutes by counting by fives around the clock face.
10 sets · 12 problems each
Two-Step Word Problems
Stories that need two steps, such as taking some away and then adding some more.
10 sets · 12 problems each
Reading for this grade
Read on your own: short articles from our Learn library, picked for this reading level. Each one has pictures, and its sources are listed on the page.
- Diving Beetle Animals
- Blood The Human Body
- Stegosaurus Dinosaurs & Fossils
- Greenland Earth & Weather
- Food Food
- Oak Plants
- Planet Space
- Science and theory of evolution Animals
- Muscles The Human Body
- Trilobite Dinosaurs & Fossils
- Okinawa Earth & Weather
- Herb Food
Over the summer
Finishing this grade? The summer bridge packet gives eight weeks of math and reading practice, one page of each per week, with answer keys.
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