Find the Word
compound wordsLook at each picture and circle the right word out of three.
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Compound words, syllables, endings and prefixes to build, split, sort and write, in 17 kinds of sheet. The 6 compound word worksheets below are free PDFs with answer keys. No sign-up.
Look at each picture and circle the right word out of three.
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Every sheet for every set in one file, in order, ready to print: the free ones and 52 more that are only in the pack.
Two pictures make one word: cup + cake
A compound word, split into its two small words
Draw the line and write each part: rab | bit
Cut out the second halves and glue them on
One spelling rule, one worked word, eight to write
Write each word in the box for its rule
Three pictures in a row, three words
One word part a page: what it means, five words to take apart
hope + ful = hopeful, and the other way round
Three forms of one word, one sentence
Draw a line from the word to what it means
A picture and three look-alike words
A word and three pictures
Cut out the words, glue each by its picture
Pick the sentence that matches the picture
A tiny story, then six sentences to judge
A story with four words to fill in
Second grade reading is mostly longer words. A child who can read cup and cake has to learn to see them inside cupcake, to split rabbit and tiger into two syllables, and to spot the word parts that come up again and again: -ing, -ed, -ful, un-, re-. These worksheets practice that, in 17 kinds of sheet.
There are twelve sets, one for each Level 5 phonics skill, in the order most programs teach them. The first four have pictures: compound words, two-syllable words with short vowels (nap|kin), open syllables (ti|ger) and the -le ending (ap|ple). The next seven are word parts, which cannot be drawn: adding -ing and -ed, -er and -est, -ly and -y, -ful and -less, the prefixes un- and re-, the prefixes pre-, dis- and mis-, and the -tion ending. A review set comes last.
The spelling rules get a sheet each. A rule sheet states one rule in a sentence (Ends in e? Drop the e, then add -ing), shows it worked once with the changed letters underlined, and gives eight words to write. Rule Sort then mixes the rules: the child writes each new word in the box for the rule it follows. Meet the Prefix and Meet the Suffix take one word part a page: what it means, a sentence, and five words to take apart. Word Sums run both ways (hop + ing, and hopping back into its parts).
The 6 compound word sheets on this page are free to print, each with its answer key, and every other set has six free sheets of its own on its phonics pages. All of the pictures are black and white line art, so a class set costs nothing extra to copy and the pictures can be colored in.