2nd Grade reading & phonics worksheets
Free 2nd grade reading and phonics worksheets to print or download as a PDF. Practice vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, prefixes and suffixes, homophones, fluency and finding the main idea.
- Word family flip pages3 sheets
Second-grade phonics word family pages for -ight, -aw and -ore. The first sound changes, the family stays the same, just like a flip book.
- Vowel teams6 sheets
Second-grade vowel team phonics worksheets: oo, ou and ow, oi and oy, aw and au, ie and igh, and ew and ue, with picture words, spelling choice, a sort and sentences.
+1 more - R-controlled vowels6 sheets
Second-grade r-controlled vowel phonics worksheets (bossy r): ar, or, er, ir and ur with picture words, an er/ir/ur spelling page, a sort and sentences.
+1 more - Two-syllable words5 sheets
Second-grade phonics worksheets for two-syllable words: clap and count syllables, split words into two parts and join syllables into words.
- Prefixes and suffixes5 sheets
Second-grade prefix and suffix worksheets: un-, re-, pre- and dis- at the start, -ful, -less, -ly and -er at the end, with word building, meanings and sentences.
- Contractions and compound words5 sheets
Second-grade worksheets for contractions (don't, I'm, we're) and compound words (sunflower, cupcake), with matching, writing and picture puzzles.
- Homophones5 sheets
Second-grade homophone worksheets: sea and see, two and too, write and right, with pictures, sentences, matching and fix-the-mistake practice.
- Second-grade sight words8 sheets
Second-grade sight word worksheets: read, trace and write, sight word hunt, fill in the sentence and cut-out word cards, using the 46 second-grade sight words.
+3 more - Timed fluency passages4 sheets
Second-grade timed reading passages with running word counts, a 3-read record, comprehension questions, phrase reading and a reading speed graph.
- Main idea and sequence5 sheets
Second-grade main idea and sequence worksheets: find what a paragraph is mostly about, write the main idea and details, put steps in order and use order words.
For the parent or teacher
Skills these worksheets practice
- Read vowel teams and r-controlled vowels, like rain, boat, car and bird
- Read two-syllable words
- Read words with prefixes and suffixes, like redo and helpful
- Read contractions, compound words and homophones
- Read second grade sight words
- Read passages smoothly
- Tell the main idea and the order of events
Questions parents ask
- Do these need to be done in order?
- No. Every child is different, so pick whatever your student needs next. Jumping around is completely fine, and a student may be ahead in some skills and still building others.
- What is an r-controlled vowel?
- A vowel followed by r, where the r changes its sound, like ar in car, or in corn and ir in bird.
- Are the worksheets really free?
- Yes. Print any sheet or download it as a PDF, with no sign-up.