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2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheets
The 2nd grade reading comprehension activities below are coordinated with the 2nd grade spelling words curriculum on a week-to-week basis, so both can be used together as part of a comprehensive program, or each part can be used separately. The printable worksheets include second grade appropriate reading passages and related questions. Each worksheet (as well as the spelling words) also includes a cross-curricular focus on earth science, reasoning, study skills, visual art, physical science, history, social sciences, mathematics and life sciences. This allows students to build their reading comprehension skills and reinforce knowledge in other subject areas. There are 36 weeks of second grade worksheets, following most standard school year calendars.
Be sure to check out all of our reading comprehension worksheets .
3-D: It’s not Just For Movies
Week 26 Reading Comprehension (B-26). A passage about dimensional objects like cubes and pyramids. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.
Cause & Effect
Week 8 Reading Comprehension (B-8). Reading comprehension passage about cause and effect. Cross-Curricular Focus: Reasoning Skills.
Color Shows Mood
Week 12 Reading Comprehension (B-12). A short passage and questions about how different colors affect us and mix together. Cross-Curricular Focus: Visual Arts.
Congruent Geometric Shapes
Week 27 Reading Comprehension (B-27). A short passage and related questions about shapes that are congruent. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.
Extending Patterns
Week 30 Reading Comprehension (B-30). Reading segment and questions about different types and uses of patterns. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.
Food is Our Fuel
Week 13 Reading Comprehension (B-13). Reading comprehension passage about the energy food provides. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.
Fractions as Parts of a Whole
Week 21 Reading Comprehension (B-21). A passage and questions about fractions. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.
Have You Got the Time?
Week 24 Reading Comprehension (B-24). A brief passage and questions about the different divisions of time. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.
How Things Move
Week 3 Reading Comprehension (B-3). A comprehension passage about motion and measuring changes in position. Cross-Curricular Focus: Physical Science.
Identifying Geometric Solids
Week 28 Reading Comprehension (B-28). Reading comprehension passage about three-dimensional figures like cubes and cones. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.
Justify Your Answer
Week 31 Reading Comprehension (B-31). A passage about making sure your answers are reasonable. Cross-Curricular Focus: Reasoning Skills
Limited Resources
Week 6 Reading Comprehension (B-6). A passage about earth’s limited natural resources. Cross-Curricular Focus: History / Social Sciences.
Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Week 34 Reading Comprehension (B-34). A brief passage about the elements of becoming good at language. Cross-Curricular Focus: Thinking Skills.
Making Connections to Text
Week 33 Reading Comprehension (B-33). Reading comprehension passage about connecting to text in different ways. Cross-Curricular Focus: Thinking Skills.
Many Ways to Measure
Week 10 Reading Comprehension (B-10). Reading segment and questions about measuring height, weight, and temperature. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.
Microscopes Magnify Things
Week 16 Reading Comprehension (B-16). A passage and questions about the origin and use of microscopes. Cross-Curricular Focus: Science Investigations.
Money, Money, Everywhere!
Week 20 Reading Comprehension (B-20). Reading segment and questions about the use of money. Cross-Curricular Focus: Mathematics.
Narrative or Expository?
Week 35 Reading Comprehension (B-35). Reading segment about the difference between narrative and expository text. Cross-Curricular Focus: Study Skills.
Plant Life Cycles
Week 4 Reading Comprehension (B-4). A passage and related questions about plant life cycles. Cross-Curricular Focus: Life Science.
Poetry Uses Rhyme
Week 22 Reading Comprehension (B-22). A short passage and related questions about the use of rhyming in poetry. Cross-Curricular Focus: ELA Genre Structure.
2nd Grade Reading Worksheets
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25 2nd Grade Reading Worksheets
Compound words #1
Some words are made up of two other words! In this language arts worksheet, your child gets practice putting together compound words such as football, playground, and pancake.
Compound words #2
Jig + saw = jigsaw! When two individual words can be added together to form a new word, that's a compound word. In this language arts worksheet, your child will find as many compound words as possible using a set of 15 root words.
Compound words: all mixed up!
These compound words are mixed up — can you fix them? In this language arts worksheet, your child gets practice decoding erroneous compound words, correcting them, and writing accurate compound words.
Conjunctions
Conjunctions are words that join sentences. In this writing worksheet, your child gets practice combining two sentences into one using different conjunctions.
Some books have a glossary. In this reading worksheet, your child learns what a glossary is and gets practice using a glossary to answer questions.
Can you figure out the word? Homographs are words with multiple meanings. In this vocabulary-building worksheet, your child will write the word that matches all three definitions given.
Write or right? In this language arts worksheet, your child will look up sets of homophones to learn the definitions of the all the like-sounding (but differently spelled) words.
How to write a story
In this set of reading and writing worksheets, your children will first read two short stories for mechanics, then draw and label a diagram about those stories, answer prompts to create their own story, and finish by writing a complete story!
Language play: sound words
Vrooom goes the car! In this language arts worksheet, your child will match each sound word to the object that makes that sound.
Poems: a mysterious story (meaning and mechanics)
Who is the Traveler? In this language arts worksheet, your child will read the poem aloud and then answer a series of reading comprehension questions about key details, overall meaning, and mechanics of the poem.
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Grade 2 Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Comprehension exercises for second grade.
These worksheets introduce basic comprehension concepts and skills such as identifying the main ideas of a text and their supporting details , relating cause and effect , making predictions based on what has been read and distinguishing between fact and fiction and between fact and opinion . Students may need help in reading the texts and exercises.
Main ideas & details : what is the text mostly about?
Sequencing : put events in logical order
Story elements : identify the beginnings, a middle and endings of stories
Conclusions & inferences : what is "probably true" based on a short text
Cause and effect worksheets : linking causes and effects
Fact vs fiction : are these sentences expressing a fact or fiction?
Fact vs opinion : classify sentences from a text as fact or opinion.
Prediction worksheets : predicting what will be in a book based on its title
Sample grade 2 reading comprehension exercises
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