CKLA-Aligned Grade 2 Skills Unit 2 Worksheets (Lessons 1–16)

51 full-page activities for CKLA-aligned Grade 2 Skills Unit 2, Lessons 1–16, written to fill the page with real second-grade work: 8 to 12 items on most pages, picture sorts, word-bank sorts, finish-the-sentence pages, put-the-words-in-order pages and stories with three-choice questions plus answers written in sentences. Unit 2 follows its lessons: magic e (a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e), ee, the vowel teams ou/ow and oi/oy, er/ir/ur and or/ar, adding -ed and -ing, quotation marks, contractions and antonyms, plus the tricky words I, you, your, my, by, have, all, who, no, go, so, are, were, some, they and their.

Nearly every word a child reads is decodable through Unit 2, or is a tricky word taught by then. A few everyday words (put, know, first, sky, night) appear so the sentences and stories sound natural. The stories are original, and every story question asks the child to choose or write: nothing is filled in ahead of time.

How the pages work: word-work pages show exactly one gray worked example, and place-or-write pages let children put a card in a box or simply write the word. No cutting is ever required. Each spelling-change rule has its own page: just add, and drop the e, are never mixed on one page. Fluency rows ask the child to cross out the one nonsense word in each row, and every page can be done by a child working alone.

Each lesson at a glance:
• Lessons 1–5: magic e, -ed, ee, quotation marks and tricky words
• Lessons 6–10: -ing, ou/ow, oi/oy and er/ir/ur
• Lessons 11–14: contractions, or/ar, close reading and antonyms
• Lessons 15–16: review stories and a unit wrap-up

You get four PDFs in one purchase: Color, Printer-Friendly (black-and-white pictures, identical text), a separate Answer Key, and separate Teacher Pages with the spelling assessments and dictation, so the student pages need no teacher. All content is original. It follows the scope of the Core Knowledge Foundation's free first-edition Grade 2 Skills sequence, Unit 2. It is not tied to any other edition of the program, and none of its text is copied.

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What's included
• 51 student activity pages: 16 lessons (54 pages per PDF with the cover, teacher information page and closing page)
• Color and Printer-Friendly editions (two PDFs, identical text)
• A separate 13-page answer key
• Separate Teacher Pages: spelling assessments and dictation (4 pages)
• Magic e, vowel teams, er/ir/ur, -ed and -ing, quotation marks, contractions and antonyms
• Place-or-write sorts and word-building pages: no cutting required