Grade 2: Free Study Materials and Practice

Grade 2 Math

7 lessons

2D and 3D Shapes
The child names and sorts 2D and 3D shapes by counting sides, vertices, faces and edges and recognizes them in any position.
Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
The child solves one-step story problems about joining, separating, comparing and finding a missing part, and shows the thinking with drawings or a bar model.
Bar Graphs and Picture Graphs
The child presents data in block graphs, bar graphs with simple scales and tables, and answers comparison and total questions.
Fractions of Shapes and Amounts
The child names unit fractions and simple non-unit fractions of shapes and sets, writes them with fraction notation and finds a fraction of an amount.
Measuring Length and Height
The child measures and compares lengths and heights with a ruler or tape in centimeters and meters, estimates before measuring and solves simple length problems.
Hundreds, Tens and Ones
The child reads, writes, compares and orders three-digit numbers, partitions them in different ways and places them on a number line.
Tally Charts and Pictographs
The child collects simple data with tally marks, shows it in a picture graph and answers questions about how many more or fewer.

Grade 2 Language Arts

6 lessons

Opinion Writing
The child names a topic or book, states an opinion, gives reasons linked with because, and and also, and writes a closing sentence.
Vowel Teams and R-Controlled Vowels
The child reads and spells common vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, ow, igh), r-controlled vowels (ar, or, er, ir, ur) and diphthongs (oi, oy, ou, ow), and learns that one sound can have several spellings.
Reading Comprehension Strategies
The child asks and answers questions about a text, finds the answer in the text, makes simple inferences, explains words in context and summarises what they read.
Syllables and Multisyllabic Words
The child splits longer words into syllables by syllable type, reads common prefixes and suffixes and reads irregular words in context.
Story Elements
The child retells stories with key details, describes characters, setting and major events, finds the lesson and says who is telling the story.
Narrative Writing
The child plans, drafts, revises and edits stories and true accounts with events in order, details, description and dialogue.

Grade 2 Science

5 lessons

Everyday Materials
The child tells an object from the material it is made of, compares materials by simple properties, and explains why a material suits a job; they squash, bend, twist and stretch materials to change their shape.
Growing Up Healthy
The child explains that animals including humans have offspring that grow, names basic needs, and links exercise, a balanced plate and handwashing to staying healthy.
Parts of a Plant
The child explains what each part of a flowering plant does, shows how water travels up a stem, and describes how flowers make seeds that are spread.
Land and Water
The child describes the kinds of land and water on Earth, compares rocks, sand and soil, and shows how wind and water can change the shape of land quickly or slowly.
Habitats and Food Chains
The child sorts things as living, dead or never alive, explores local habitats and microhabitats, and builds simple food chains.

11 lessons

African American History
The child meets African Americans whose courage, ideas and work shaped the United States, follows their story from African homelands and slavery to freedom, civil rights and today, and explains why the country remembers…
American Symbols and Holidays
Read together: the child recognizes the American flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell and the White House, and says why Americans celebrate Independence Day,…
Changes within Living Memory
The child compares daily life, toys, school, technology and transport now and when parents and grandparents were young, and explains what changed and what stayed the same.
Continents and Oceans
The child names and locates the continents and oceans, the equator and the poles, and finds their own country and some others on a world map.
Earning, Spending and Saving Money
The child learns that people earn money by working and use it to buy goods and services, chooses between spending, saving and sharing, saves for a goal with a simple plan and keeps money safe.
How We Know About the Past
The child finds out about the past from objects, pictures, buildings, written records and older people, and asks what each source can and cannot tell.
Levels of Government
The child explains what governments do, who makes, carries out and judges laws in the town, the state and the nation, names the three branches and their leaders, and says how leaders are chosen.
Democracy at School
Decide things together in your class, vote fairly and understand the results, choose representatives for a student council, and find out how communities make decisions and how you can help yours.
Maps and Compass Directions
The child reads simple maps and plans, uses a globe and compass directions, and makes a map of a familiar place with a key.
Goods and Services
The child sorts needs from wants and goods from services, meets the jobs people do in the community and why they work, and sees that people make choices because they cannot have everything.
Significant People and Why We Remember Them
The child learns about the lives of significant people from different times and places, and discusses why people are remembered and how they changed things.

Grade 2 Health Education

5 lessons

Feelings and Wellbeing
The child names a range of feelings, uses ways to cope with worry and anger, keeps friendships healthy, and knows when and whom to ask for help.
Germs, Clean Air and Water
The child explains how germs spread in places people share and how everyone helps to stop them, why clean air, clean water and safe rubbish collection keep a community healthy, and who in the community works to keep…
Healthy Eating
The child sorts foods into groups using the national food guide, plans a balanced plate and snacks, and understands why water, fruit and vegetables matter.
Exercise, Sleep and Hygiene
The child explains why daily activity, enough sleep, handwashing and toothbrushing keep them healthy, and builds routines for them.
Health Labels, Ads and Medicines
The child spots how adverts and packaging try to make them want food, toys and health products, reads simple labels, knows that medicines are taken only from a trusted adult, and knows where to find health help and…

Grade 2 Computers & Technology

5 lessons

Events and Conditions in Coding
The child makes block programs that react to events and use if-then-else to choose between actions, for example in a simple game or quiz.
Inside Our Devices
The child names the parts of a computer system, explains input, processing, output and storage, and recognises computers inside everyday objects.
Loops in Coding
The child uses count-controlled and forever loops in a block language to shorten programs and draw or animate repeating patterns.
Online Safety
The child keeps personal information private, uses strong passwords, behaves kindly online and knows when and how to tell a trusted adult.
What Is AI for Kids
The child spots AI in everyday tools, trains a simple model by sorting labelled examples, sees how new or unfair examples change its answers, compares how people and machines learn, and uses an AI tool responsibly.