Grammar Picnic
By grade
Grade 2 grammar
13 topics · 36 weeks of daily practice · a workbook
What Grade 2 introduces, by the Common Core Language standards; the earlier grades’ topics come back for review.
Topics introduced in Grade 2
13 topics- Collective nounsChoose the word for the group. A ____ of elephants walked.
- Irregular pluralsChoose the right word. The ____ stand at the door.
- Reflexive pronounsChoose the right pronoun. Dad washed ____ gently.
- Irregular past tenseChoose the right word. Dad ____ the cake.
- AdverbsWhich word tells how? The owls hoot loudly.
- Looks, feels, soundsChoose the word that tells what it is like. The baby seems ____.
- Active and passiveStart with the thing that gets the action. The lions chased the zebra.
- Needed words and extra wordsFind the extra words. The sentence still works without them. The girl dances well.
- What comes after the verbChoose the right order after the verb. The driver will drive ____.
- Same meaningChoose the sentence that means the same. Dad lights the fire.
- Combining sentencesJoin the two sentences into one with and. Check the verb. The dolphin chases the fish. The shark chases the fish.
- Possessives with 'sChoose the right word. The boys send ____ cards.
- Contractions: don't, she'sDraw a line from the two words to their contraction. will notcannotshe isare notis notcan'twon'tisn'tshe'saren't
Daily grammar practice
36 weeksWorkbook
24 lessonsReview from the earlier grades
28 topics- Common and proper nouns
- Subject-verb agreement
- Do, does, did
- There is, there are
- He or him, they or them
- Pronouns: he, she, it, they
- His, her, its, their
- One word instead
- Past, present, future
- Regular past tense: -ed
- Describing words
- And, but, so, because
- a or an
- a and the
- Many, a few, a little
- Prepositions of place
- In, on, at for time
- Statements and questions
- Who, what, where, when, why, how
- Short answers
- Which and whose
- Commands and exclamations
- Choose the combined sentence
- Capital letters
- End marks
- Commas in a series
- Nouns and verbs
- Plurals: -s, -es, -ies