Pagine1050 free printables for 105 second-grade readiness skills — 10 for every skill — across reading, writing, speaking, maths, science, social studies and social-emotional skills. For Grade 1 and Grade 2, original and ad-free, plus 20,000+ free books.
Tick Yes or Not yet for all 105 skills, then pick sheets for the “not yets”.
Print the checklist →Confidence, respect, rules, responsibility, focus, teamwork, empathy, solving conflicts and finishing tasks. Give real responsibilities — chores, packing a school bag, a to-do list — and praise effort and follow-through.
Is comfortable and confident in self and abilities · 10 printables
Open →🤝Respects others and the rights of others · 10 printables
Open →📋Follows classroom rules and routines · 10 printables
Open →🙋Accepts responsibility for behavior and actions · 10 printables
Open →✂️Uses materials appropriately and respectfully · 10 printables
Open →🧭Makes independent choices of materials and activities · 10 printables
Open →🎯Sustains attention to work over time · 10 printables
Open →🧩Works, plays and shares with others · 10 printables
Open →🧑🏫Interacts easily with adults · 10 printables
Open →👥Participates in group activities · 10 printables
Open →💗Shows empathy and caring for others · 10 printables
Open →🗣️Uses words to reason and resolve conflicts · 10 printables
Open →🆘Seeks help when unable to resolve conflicts · 10 printables
Open →✅Completes tasks · 10 printables
Open →Context clues, sight words, phonics, word families, compound words, main idea, sequence, questions and retelling. Read every day, talk about the main idea, and ask who, what, when, where, why and how.
Shows independent interest in reading · 10 printables
Open →👂Listens with interest to stories and texts read aloud · 10 printables
Open →🖍️Constructs meaning from print · 10 printables
Open →🤔Understands and interprets stories and short passages · 10 printables
Open →🔎Recognizes new words using phonics and context clues · 10 printables
Open →👀Has a basic sight vocabulary · 10 printables
Open →📝Follows written directions · 10 printables
Open →🕵️Identifies main idea and characters, sequences events and predicts outcomes · 10 printables
Open →🔊Distinguishes beginning, middle and ending sounds · 10 printables
Open →🔗Adds, deletes or changes sounds to make new words · 10 printables
Open →🟦Segments one-syllable words into sounds · 10 printables
Open →➕Reads compound words and contractions · 10 printables
Open →🏠Reads words in common word families · 10 printables
Open →❓Answers who, what, when, where, how and why questions · 10 printables
Open →📝Retells the central ideas of a reading · 10 printables
Open →Sentences and stories, capitals and punctuation, handwriting, spelling, synonyms and antonyms, vowels, endings and plurals. Write for real reasons: letters, lists, stories. Check capitals, end marks and spaces together.
Accurately writes their last name · 10 printables
Open →✉️Writes words, phrases and sentences to share messages · 10 printables
Open →🏷️Recognizes conventions of print: punctuation and parts of speech · 10 printables
Open →📖Writes simple stories with a beginning, middle and end · 10 printables
Open →✏️Writes complete, spaced sentences with capitals and punctuation · 10 printables
Open →✍️Prints uniformly and legibly · 10 printables
Open →🔤Spells grade-level words · 10 printables
Open →📘Finds words in a picture dictionary · 10 printables
Open →🪢Uses strategies for spelling new words · 10 printables
Open →🧐Uses correct spelling for common words · 10 printables
Open →↔️Understands synonyms and antonyms · 10 printables
Open →🔡Identifies beginning, middle and ending consonants · 10 printables
Open →🅰️Recognizes long and short vowel words · 10 printables
Open →🔚Identifies word endings · 10 printables
Open →🔢Identifies plural forms and compound words · 10 printables
Open →Multi-step directions, discussions, explaining ideas, describing, using I and me, and complete sentences. Ask open questions at dinner and let your child explain, describe and retell in full sentences.
Follows directions that involve a series of actions · 10 printables
Open →💬Participates in discussions and conversations · 10 printables
Open →🎤Expresses ideas clearly: describes, answers and retells · 10 printables
Open →🔍Describes an object using two or more properties · 10 printables
Open →🙋Uses "I" and "me" correctly · 10 printables
Open →🧱Speaks in complete sentences · 10 printables
Open →Skip counting, numbers to 100, facts, two-digit adding and subtracting, place value, estimating, fractions, ordinals and number lines. Skip-count in the car, add prices at the shop and talk about tens and ones.
Counts by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s · 10 printables
Open →💯Identifies, orders and writes numbers 0 to 100 · 10 printables
Open →⚡Knows addition and subtraction facts · 10 printables
Open →➕Adds and subtracts two-digit numbers without regrouping · 10 printables
Open →🧱Shows beginning understanding of place value · 10 printables
Open →🤔Makes reasonable estimates of quantities · 10 printables
Open →🍕Identifies whole, halves, thirds and fourths · 10 printables
Open →🥇Names and uses ordinal numbers · 10 printables
Open →📏Plots and identifies whole numbers on a number line · 10 printables
Open →Shapes, measuring problems, measuring tools, symmetry and reflections. Measure with rulers and scales while cooking and building; look for symmetry in nature.
Identifies and draws basic shapes · 10 printables
Open →🧮Solves simple spatial and measuring problems with objects or drawings · 10 printables
Open →📏Recognizes and uses rulers, scales and thermometers · 10 printables
Open →🦋Understands spatial relationships, symmetry and reflections · 10 printables
Open →Money to $1, telling time, explaining maths thinking, tallies and graphs, sorting and patterns. Count coins from a coin jar, read clocks and calendars, and make graphs of family surveys.
Recognizes and adds money to $1.00 · 10 printables
Open →🕒Tells time to the hour and half-hour · 10 printables
Open →💭Uses drawings and words to explain maths thinking · 10 printables
Open →📋Collects and records data with tallies, lists, charts and graphs · 10 printables
Open →📊Reads a graph or chart and draws conclusions · 10 printables
Open →🗂️Classifies, sorts and compares objects in different ways · 10 printables
Open →🔁Makes, copies and extends patterns with actions, objects and words · 10 printables
Open →Properties and states of matter, energy, habitats, the solar system, living things, food chains and doing investigations. Wonder, predict and test — kitchens, gardens and the night sky make great labs.
Shows a positive attitude toward science · 10 printables
Open →🧪Describes, classifies and compares objects by their properties · 10 printables
Open →🧊Knows the same material can be a solid, liquid or gas · 10 printables
Open →🔥Knows things can be done to materials to change their properties · 10 printables
Open →🧱Knows many things are made of smaller pieces · 10 printables
Open →⚡Understands basic concepts of energy · 10 printables
Open →🏞️Understands habitats and tells different habitats apart · 10 printables
Open →🪐Knows the Solar System · 10 printables
Open →🌗Understands how the Solar System affects life on Earth · 10 printables
Open →🌱Knows the basic needs of all living things · 10 printables
Open →👀Observes characteristics and behavior of living and non-living things · 10 printables
Open →🔗Understands how living things depend on each other · 10 printables
Open →🧪Uses investigation to find information · 10 printables
Open →🔭Uses tools to gather scientific information · 10 printables
Open →❓Asks questions about the natural and physical world · 10 printables
Open →🔮Makes logical predictions from observations · 10 printables
Open →📢Communicates scientific information in many ways · 10 printables
Open →Then and now, history and time, cultures, US history and monuments, maps and continents, rules and government, and money and banks. Share family history, look at maps, visit landmarks (in person or online) and talk about rules, leaders and money.
Compares everyday life in different places and times · 10 printables
Open →📜Understands history tells real stories of real people · 10 printables
Open →📅Understands categories of time and calendar time · 10 printables
Open →🌍Recognizes cultural differences, traditions and contributions · 10 printables
Open →🇺🇸Knows significant individuals in United States history · 10 printables
Open →🎆Knows the people and events honored by holidays · 10 printables
Open →🗽Knows how buildings, monuments and statues are linked to history · 10 printables
Open →🗺️Uses maps and globes to find places that matter to them · 10 printables
Open →🌏Identifies the seven continents and their features · 10 printables
Open →🚚Knows how people, products and ideas are moved · 10 printables
Open →⚖️Understands how and why rules are made · 10 printables
Open →🏛️Recognizes major elected officials like the President and Governor · 10 printables
Open →🗳️Understands that officials are elected by the people they serve · 10 printables
Open →🏅Understands the role and responsibilities of a citizen · 10 printables
Open →🌳Distinguishes human resources from natural resources · 10 printables
Open →🛍️Knows goods vs services and consumers vs producers · 10 printables
Open →🏪Begins to understand markets and exchange · 10 printables
Open →🏦Understands the basic functions of a bank · 10 printables
Open →Early chapter books, non-fiction and read-alouds — free in the Pagine e-reader, or track every book in the free Pagine app.
Second grade asks children to be much more independent learners. They build skills in nine areas: social and emotional skills, reading, writing and spelling, listening and speaking, numbers, geometry and measurement, real-world maths, science and social studies. This page lists 105 of them, each with 10 free practice sheets.
Yes — all of them are free to print or save as a PDF with a free Pagine account.
Grade 1 (ages 6–7) and Grade 2 (ages 7–8): use them in the second half of first grade, the summer before second grade, or for second-grade review.
Yes — the free Second Grade Readiness Checklist lists all 105 skills with Yes / Not yet boxes.
Yes — 20,000+ free children’s books and audiobooks in the Pagine e-reader and the free Pagine app, sorted by age and grade.