2nd Grade Teaching Resources
Explore 2nd-grade math worksheets, spelling words and so much more with thousands of teacher-created second-grade worksheets, activities, and more resources for teaching.
These curriculum-aligned resources were all designed by expert teachers to meet second-grade Common Core standards and state curricula. And only at Teach Starter do resources undergo rigorous peer review, including fact-checking and spell-checking to make sure every Google Slide, printable, poster, or game is ready to be used in your classroom.
Engage your second graders in ELA with writing prompts and reading comprehension exercises, explore 2nd-grade reading worksheets, and open students' worlds to new ways to communicate while engaging with and creating their own texts.
Find 2nd-grade math activities for algebraic thinking and number operations, measurement and geometry, statistics and graphing, plus hundreds of science, art, and social-emotional learning activities to fill their days and minds.
Teach Starter's unique teaching resources use clean layouts, grade-level-appropriate text, and interactive features to engage second graders and set them up for success.
Browse second-grade lessons, games, task cards, worksheets, and more below!
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Past, Present, and Future Tense Worksheets - Grades 1/2
Provide students with additional verb tense practice with worksheets focusing on changing verbs into past, present, and future tense.
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Dressing Up A Sentence - Interactive or Printable Activity
Encourage students to add more descriptive language into their sentence writing with this activity.
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End of Year Scavenger Hunt
Use your investigation skills to complete this end-of-the-year scavenger hunt.
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Natural Landforms for Kids Poster Collection
Display and teach the types of landforms on Earth with a set of fifteen Natural Landforms posters.
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Find Someone Who – End of the Year Edition
Use this fun end-of-the-year activity to get students moving and reflect with their classmates about the school year.
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This Year was Poppin'- End of the Year Crafts for Kids
Wrap up the year with a poppin’ end-of-school-year craft for elementary school students.
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Roll and Cover – Telling Time to the Minute
Practice telling to the minute with this roll and cover game
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Contractions SLAP IT! Card Game
Play a contraction matching game to enhance grammar and spelling skills in the classroom.
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Contractions - I Have, Who Has? Card Game
Encourage correct spelling and usage of contractions in your Language Arts lessons with an engaging I Have, Who Has? Card game.
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Telling Time Knockout
Practice telling time to the minute by reading analog and digital clocks with this competitive whole-class Telling Time Knockout game.
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Four in a Row Game - Telling Time to the Hour and Half Hour
Students match analog and digital clock times on their game board to tell the time in 30 minute and hour increments.
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Short and Long Vowels Google Interactive Activity
Read and identify short and long vowel sounds and place the pictures into the correct columns.
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Sight Word Hunt — 2nd Grade Dolch Words List Activity
Practice reading 2nd-grade level sight words from the Dolch high-frequency words list with this activity.
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Bowling Game - Parts of Speech
Practice recognizing parts of speech by matching 36 word cards to noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, and preposition pins.
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Search and Find – Food Edition
A fun, search and find counting activity
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Read and Color Worksheet - Singular and Plural Nouns
A worksheet to practice identifying singular and plural nouns.
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All About Me Name Tag Template
Use this All About Me Name Tag Template to have your students design a name tag for their desk on the first day of school.
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Classroom Catastrophe Scale – Display
Help your students gauge the severity of everyday challenges with this wall display.
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Sight Word BINGO (Fry Word List 1-100 )
A set of 25 BINGO cards to practice reading the first 100 words on the Fry Sight Word List.
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Idioms: What Are They and What Do They Mean? PowerPoint
An editable PowerPoint presentation to use when teaching idioms.
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Identifying Idioms and Their Meanings - Worksheet
A worksheet to practice identifying idioms and their meaning.
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Grade 2 – Week 4 Learning from Home Activity Grids
A set of age-appropriate Grade 2 activities that parents can use to educate children remotely or that teachers can send to students working at home when schools are closed.
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This or That! PowerPoint Game - Vowel Teams
An active PowerPoint game to practice decoding words with vowel teams.
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Free Map Skills Worksheet- Using Cardinal Directions
A worksheet to practice using cardinal directions.
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Measuring My Body – Comparing Heights Activity
Explore linear measurement with an engaging collaborative activity where students measure different body parts and compare them
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Contraction Activity Cards
A set of 36 contraction matching cards that can be used individually, in pairs or small groups, or as part of a whole-class activity.
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My Research Project - Pennant Banner
Create a pennant banner for students to record and display their biography research.
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If I Were President ...
A Presidents' Day writing activity.
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Color by 2-D Shape – Activity Sheets
A detailed set of color by shape activities.
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Addition and Subtraction Minute Math Booklet
Warm-up (or assess) with this 10-page booklet of addition and subtraction drills.
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Pyramid Reading Cards - Dolch 2nd Grade Sight Words
Practice reading Dolch's 2nd Grade Sight Words with a set of 44 pyramid sentence cards.
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This or That! PowerPoint Game - Contractions
An active PowerPoint game to practice working with contractions.