Quick Common Core Literacy
Summer
2 nd
grade
Yvonne and Brian Crawford
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Summer Quick Common Core
Introduction
Summer Quick Common Core Literacy is a packet of ten
different worksheets featuring a fun summer theme. You
can use one worksheet per day as a warm up to your daily
language arts lesson. This packet is designed to meet the
level of a second grade student.
As a student completes each problem they can color in the
problem’s corresponding checkbox at the bottom of the
page, giving them a sense of accomplishment. Then, when
all exercises are completed, either they or you can color in
the flower at the bottom right hand corner of the page.
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Common Core for the Second Grade
The following Common Core topics are covered in this booklet:
Language Standards 2.L
Conventions of Standard English
1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
a. Use collective nouns (e.g., group).
b. Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns
(e.g., feet, children, teeth, mice, fish).
c. Use reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
d. Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told).
e. Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
f. Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little
boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the
little boy).
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
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a. Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names.
b. Use commas in greetings and closings of letters.
c. Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.
d. Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words
(e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
e. Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings.
3. Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
a. Compare formal and informal uses of English.
4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning
words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing
flexibly from an array of strategies.
a. Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a
word or phrase.
b. Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a
known prefix is added to a known word (e.g., happy/unhappy,
tell/retell).
d. Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (e.g., birdhouse, lighthouse, housefly; bookshelf, notebook, bookmark).
e. Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, both print and
digital, to determine or clarify the meaning of words and
phrases.
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5. With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding
of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
a. Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a
sense of the concepts the categories represent.
b. Define words by category and by one or more key attributes
(e.g., a duck is a bird that swims; a tiger is a large cat with
stripes).
c. Identify real-life connections between words and their use
(e.g., note places at home that are cozy).
d. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in
manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or
choosing them or by acting out the meanings.
6. Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and
being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., because).
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Summer Quick Common Core
Name:
What is the
Describe this picture.
plural of
1
2
Circle the
3
misspelled
words.
heet
swimsuit?
What is a dictionary?
4
summer
July
What does the word reappear
mean?
5
6
1
2
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4
5
What is the
past tense of
swim?
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Summer Quick Common Core
Name:
Circle the misspelled words.
1
3
vakation
sandels
outdoors
sea
reelax
ocean
What does
the word
flowerbed
mean?
What is the
past tense
2
Correct the sentences below:
4
Would you like to go swimming
today. Do you knew how to swim?
What is your favorite thing
Write a word
about summer?
that describes
how you feel
about the beach.
5
6
1
of thunder?
2
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Summer Quick Common Core
Name:
1
3
True or
False?
Write two adjectives
that could describe this
shell.
2
Summer
should be
capitalized.
What is the
Make the past tense of the verb relax agree with the
plural of
subjects below.
sandal?
4
Laura
You
we
they
Correct the sentences below:
5
6
Clio love summer. She loves
to relax outdoors and readed book.
1
2
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4
5
What does
the word
greenhouse
mean?
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Summer Quick Common Core
Name:
Circle the letters of the words that should
be capitalized.
1
august
beach
summer
fred
What does
the word
toadstool
mean?
3
2
Write a sentence about something you did
last year for summer vacation.
4
True or
False?
Write three adjectives that could
describe this picture.
5
6
1
2
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What is the
past tense of
travel?
3
4
5
Mrs. Summerby
should be
capitalized.
6
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Summer Quick Common Core
Name:
True or
False?
List three adjectives that can
describe this picture.
1
2
Towns should
not be
capitalized.
What do you love most about the summer?
What is the
plural of ice
3
cream cone?
4
What does the word unable mean?
5
6
1
2
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4
5
What does
the word
riverbed
mean?
6
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Summer Quick Common Core
Name:
Write three adjectives that
could describe this picture.
1
2
What is the
past tense of
visit?
3
Circle the letters of the words that should be
capitalized.
4
4th of july
vacation
uncle sam
fun
Make these words plural:
5
baseball
fan
fruit
outing
sundress
fin
1
2
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What does the
word
sunflower
mean?
3
Make a
6
4
5
sentence with the
word enjoyed.
6
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Summer Quick Common Core
Name:
Make these words plural:
1
tent
hotdog
sprinkler
pool
goggle
bicycle
Give an
example of an
summer
3
noun.
2
Circle the letters of the words that should be
capitalized.
4
canada
sand
new york
mr. mcfly
What is the
Write two adjectives that could describe
plural of
this picture.
5
6
1
2
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Name three
summer items
that are
orange.
3
4
5
daisy?
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Summer Quick Common Core
Name:
What does the word unalike mean?
What is the
plural of
1
3
2
Give an
example of a
summer
verb.
sundress?
Write the expanded form of the contractions below.
4
what’s
you’ll
shouldn’t
Circle the letters of the words that should be
Make a sentence
with the word
capitalized.
5
1
united states
johnny appleseed
north america
pacific ocean
fluffy
pebbles
2
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4
6
5
hiked.
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Summer Quick Common Core
Name:
Write the expanded form of the contractions below.
where’s
1
2
they’re
What is the
past tense of
waterski?
who’ve
List four adjectives that can
What is the
plural of
describe this picture.
backpack?
3
4
Circle the misspelled words.
5
soccar
piknik
journey
frisbee
blister
sunscreen
1
2
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6
4
5
Name types of
food that you eat
during the
summer.
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Summer Quick Common Core
Name:
What does the word hemisphere
1
mean?
2
Write the expanded form of the contractions below.
What does
the word
3
meatloaf
mean?
Name
summer items
that are
green.
4
we’ve
weren’t
aren’t
Write three adjectives that could describe
this apple tree.
5
6
1
2
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4
5
What is the
past tense of
trek?
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