2nd Grade Grammar Workbook

• Ages 7–8
• Common Core L.2.1, L.2.2, L.2.5
• PDF, about 120 pages

What's inside

• A placement check and start-here map. Ten questions on day one. The map tells you which lesson to start with, so your child skips what they already know.
• 40 lessons, each with a grown-up page and a kid page. You read for 2 minutes; your child works for 8.
• An answer key that explains mistakes. For each common wrong answer: what it usually means and which page to revisit.
• A review day after every unit. Mixed practice so skills stick.
• A final check and certificate. Same skills as the placement check, so you can see the growth.
• A progress chart your child colors in after every lesson.
• A link to free online practice for every lesson: a read-aloud quiz and a game on this site, with no sign-up.

What one lesson looks like

Here's Lesson 4, proper nouns, from the free sample. Every lesson follows the same four steps on the grown-up page:

1. Say this. A short script in plain words: "A noun names a person, a place or a thing. Some nouns are names, like your name..."
2. Show this. One quick example with things around the house, like a two-column list of common nouns and their names.
3. Ask out loud. Three questions with the answers in brackets, so you can check understanding before the page.
4. Watch for. The mistakes kids usually make in this lesson, and exactly what to say when you see one.

Then your child does the kid page: four short parts that move from spotting the skill, to sorting, to fixing mistakes, to writing their own sentence. The free proper nouns lesson on this site shows the same skill online.

All 10 units

• Unit 1Sentences (Lessons 1–3): complete sentences, the four kinds of sentences, end marks.
• Unit 2Nouns (Lessons 4–8): proper nouns, plurals, irregular plurals, collective and possessive nouns.
• Unit 3Pronouns (Lessons 9–11): I and me, he, she and they, reflexive pronouns like myself.
• Unit 4Verbs (Lessons 12–17): action verbs, past and future, irregular past tense, subject-verb agreement.
• Unit 5Describing words (Lessons 18–21): adjectives, adverbs and choosing between them.
• Unit 6Building sentences (Lessons 22–25): and, but, so; compound sentences; expanding and rearranging.
• Unit 7Capital letters (Lessons 26–29): names, places, holidays, dates and the word I.
• Unit 8Punctuation (Lessons 30–35): commas in dates, lists and letters; contractions; apostrophes for ownership.
• Unit 9Word choice (Lessons 36–39): shades of meaning, a, an and the, prepositions.
• Unit 10Editing (Lesson 40): find and fix mistakes in a real paragraph.

Each unit links to the matching free lesson on this site, so your child can review online too.

Who it's for

• 2nd graders who need extra practice alongside school, or a full grammar course at home.
• 3rd graders with gaps. The placement check finds them, and you only do those units.
• Strong 1st graders ready to get ahead over the summer.
• Homeschool families who want a complete, ready-to-teach grammar course for the year.

Not sure? Look at the 2nd grade skills page, or have your child try a few free grammar quizzes first.

How it compares to a typical workbook

Buying and printing

The full workbook is almost ready. Until it launches, the 8 free sample pages include the placement check and a complete lesson, so you can start today. When it's available, checkout will be handled by a secure payment provider and you'll download the PDF right away. Print it at home on US Letter paper, in black and white or color. Most families print one unit at a time.

Questions before you buy? Email hello@english1to5.com. Teachers looking for a classroom license can write to the same address.

Last reviewed: November 11, 2026

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