School is in full swing for some of us, or just starting off for others, but we all need space-filler activities during the day or sub teacher activities for those days when the unexpected comes up. Why not make it meaningful, too, for your second graders with some free worksheets from have fun teaching? Second graders aren’t the only ones with activities on that site, either. Grade by grade and subject by subject, there are hundreds of free resources!

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Second Grade Worksheets

Need another phonics activity to tuck into your toolbox? Pull out this free worksheet from have fun teaching and practice your blends! Some of the hardest sounds to make are the blends, especially for young students or students from countries whose languages are very different from ours. This is a great ESOL strategy, as well as great practice for those little guys who all need to be great readers some day!

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Word Lists

So many vowel sounds, so little time… Why not make a vowel booklet for each vowel sound? Worksheets can form a good backbones of that booklet, along with word lists, illustrations, and other activities. This can be a great morning work, centers activity, or check for understanding too!

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Vowel Worksheets

Verbs are action words, and students need to know how to match them up with a subject to make proper sentences. They also need to know a variety of them, so every sentence isn’t about eating, sleeping, talking, or running. Get them practicing with a quick worksheet from have fun teaching. Then have them brainstorm more verbs they know with their partners. You could even start a verb wall in your classroom!

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Verb Worksheets

Not only is the word syllable fun to say, you can also very easily add clapping as a kinesthetic element to lessons with it. Clap, stomp your feet, or pound your desk for each syllable. Try out some worksheets on syllables instead. Drawing lines between syllables, clapping for syllables, or any other number of techniques that help students learn to chunk their letters into standard phonemes are great things. Mix in a little motion and music to this lesson and watch your students smile as they learn.

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Syllable Worksheets

Word ending suffixes for verbs can be tricky business. Want a quick check for understanding for -ed and -ing verbs? Check this out and give it to your first or second graders. It could be used as a pre- and post-exam. I can certainly see this being a part of a larger verb unit. Enhance your students’ word power!

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Suffix Worksheets

Nothing says back to school for the little ones like mastering sight word lists. I can think of a few good uses for these with ESOL students, too. With all the focus on low reading scores and esol students, mastering theseis tantamount to reading fluency success. Practice them with your students with these worksheets. Other ideas include putting these in clear file so they can tally mark each time they see one of the words in a story or reading passage. You could also use one as the crazy word of the day. When someone says it or read it aloud, everyone does a specific cheer!

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Sight Word Worksheets

Have some more lyrically-inclined students or just need to work on some phonics skills? Rhyming can be a great way to pull some humor into your lessons, while meeting those required language standards. Rhyming can also be a great center activity. Have students try this worksheet, and then they could use some of the words to write quick, silly rhymes they can share with classmates.

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Rhyming Worksheets

With all the texting and emailing going on these days, punctuation seems to be a thing of the past. Your students probably know LOL and TTYL, but do they know periods, commas, and quotation marks? Help them level up their texting and writing a bit with some practice on this punctuation worksheet. And while you’re at it, look up Romeo & Juliet in cell phone text language. It’s pretty funny. Your 4th and 5th graders or middle schoolers will love it.

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Punctuation Worksheets

He, She, It… sounds easy, right? Think again. Without reviewing these and practicing, it can be a grammatical nightmare trying to teach students not only to use the right pronouns, but also matching them with the proper verbs. I think we’ve all heard enough of this kind of talk: “We was at the store…” Fix that stuff right now with this helpful worksheet!

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Pronoun Worksheets