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

Wouldn’t it be great if some of these worksheet websites not only sorted things by subject area, but also by grade level? Well, Have Fun Teaching has done that. They’ve got K-3 done, and 4-6 are forthcoming. Granted, not everything from the 100′s or 1000′s of worksheets on the site has been sorted yet, but it’s a good start. Not to mention, there are songs that go along with a lot of this material for you to attack your multiple intelligences in lesson planning!

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Grade Level Worksheets

Enhance writing power in time for standardized testing with synonyms and their EVIL cousin, antonyms. Remind students that it’s fun to know as many words as possible for: good, pretty, hot, cold, bad, and all these other common words that we overuse. Do it with a word graveyard! Make little paper tombstones and write the dead word on it. Retire more and more words as weeks go on, so students have to think of newer ones! Practice with this worksheet on synonyms.

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Synonym 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

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

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Grammar Worksheets

Struggling to get your students to add flavor of any sort to bland, boring sentences? Are they unable to pull adjectives out of thin air to describe things? Try some English worksheets and have them going through basic activities to flex their vocabulary muscles. Describe common objects, assemble word families, and much more! We all know we’re building toward state writing tests, and everything done at younger grades just builds them up for it. Find this worksheet and more in the English Worksheets section of Have Fun Teaching.

Adjective Worksheets

Adjective Worksheets

Need a quick and easy guide for helping your students remember simple abbreviations? Practice your titles, months, and more with this worksheet. Want to go beyond that? Have them learn state postal code abbreviations for a social studies tie-in. These little abbreviations will help in reading, in letter writing, and in everyday life. Sounds like a great primary grades activity to start the school year!

Abbreviation Worksheets

Abbreviation Worksheets

Grammar is something that takes practice to gain familiarity, what with all the strange rules and exceptions the English language has. Practice some of those with the plethora of english worksheets available on have fun teaching. Need worksheets on parts of speech? Got ‘em. Need them on spelling or synonyms/antonyms? Got ‘em. Want to review your high frequency words? Man, they’ve got them too! A great wealth of free resources all at your fingertips, or at least a mouse click away.

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English Worksheets

What a great way to get back into class with the little guys! Have them practice writing their name with this fancy worksheet. They could even do fun activities on the back, like drawing a picture of their family or something like that to introduce themselves to you and the class. I can imagine quite a nice bulletin board being made out of these, or a nice hall display.

Free Worksheets for Teachers

Free Worksheets for Teachers