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

Need a way to remind your students of those rules for -s, -es, and -ies? Throw this sheet down on their desk come Monday morning, and then flip it over for a 3-column chart. As a team exercise, they can think of more nouns that are pluralized with -s, -es, and -ies. Knock out your cooperative learning, morning work, and part of your language in one shot!

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Plural Noun Worksheets

Homophones are some of the most commonly used and misused words in our language. The only way to avoid homophone errors is to use them frequently and drill the correct usage into students. Use this worksheet to get a head start. Then, see if they can come up with more homophone pairs in a journal log or on the back of this page! See who can get the most pairs and trios of homophones. This is also a great ESL vocab builder.

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Homophone Worksheets

Nothing says back to school like tackling some sight word lists! Without knowing these words by rote, oral reading fluency drops significantly. Keep these in a binder to test students or send home these word lists for parents to test their kids on every day. It’s a great school-home connection piece in primary grades.

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High Frequency Word Worksheets

I’m sure we’ve all run across misuses of words like theirs and there’s, or we’ve seen all sorts of odd mismatched words jammed together with apostrophes to make custom contractions. Why not end the pain and suffering now and pull out a contractions worksheet to fix these horrendous grammatical snafus? Pardon my vocabulary this post, but won’t someone please think of the children’s grammar? Do us all a favor and download this worksheet!

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Contractions Worksheets

To hyphenate, or not to hyphenate, that is the question! It’s always hard for younger students to figure out which words get a space, which ones get a hyphen, and which ones just get glued together. Give them some practice with more common compound words with this sheet from have fun teaching. It’d be easy to add in some extension activities here. Kagan activities where they trade words sounds like a good idea, perhaps a card swap activity where they have to match up the other half of their word with the one another student is holding. Make it fun to learn this!

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Compound Words Worksheets

Spelling Worksheets – Click Here

Here are some more spelling worksheets, spelling activities and spelling lesson plan ideas to use with your kids.

• Have Fun Teaching – Spelling Soup Activities, Spelling Worksheets, Spelling Definitions Worksheets
• TLSBooks – Spelling Worksheets for random words and parts of speech
• TeachNology – Free Spelling Worksheets for Elementary and High School

Have Fun Teaching Phonics Packages – Click Here

Alphabetical Order – To the Second Letter – Click Here

These alphabetical order worksheets will be great for your English, Language Arts, and Spelling lesson plans. Here are some addition links that will help you teach ABC order and make learning alphabetical order fun.

1. Have Fun Teaching – Alphabetical order worksheets to the first letter, alphabetical order worksheets to the second letter, alphabetical order worksheets to the third letter, dictionary skills worksheet packet
2. Teachnology – Lots of free alphabetical order worksheets for kids. One word and two word variations.
3. SoftSchools – This site offers Alphabetical order games, word sorting games, and ABC order games for kids. These are online interactive learning games for kids.