Second Grade Ela Reading Non Fiction Worksheets

This main idea worksheet guides your child through reading comprehension practice. Download today to get started!

Is your kid computer savvy? Test his knowledge of basic computer parts with this fun match-up activity.

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.

These pictures have a lot to say! The animals in this worksheet don't talkÃbut they can tell you a lot about what they're like by the way they look.

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

Your students will love learning all about this fascinating historical figure while also practicing reading comprehension and reading response skills.

Learn more about this fascinating woman in history who became the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic.

Here are listed a handful of natural resources, for kids to classify as renewable resources and nonrenewable resources.

Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Learn more about author, activist and poet Maya Angelou with this Historical Heroes printable - a great addition to celebrating Black History Month.

Learn some new words and facts about precious minerals with this word-scramble and matching worksheet.

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool guitar facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.

Learn more about this amazing woman, and get some practice finding the main idea in a nonfiction passage, with this Madam C.J. Walker biography.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool whale facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Learn more about molecules and how they comprise the air all around us in this intro-to-earth-science worksheet.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool sea turtle facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Learn about facts vs. opinions in this reading comprehension worksheet. Kids will read two sets of text and decide which is fact and which is opinion.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool piano facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Discover the inner workings of basic earth science in this worksheet on temperature.

Track important events in the life of an important woman with this Sojourner Truth timeline, a great way to get used to reading and writing nonfiction.