Free Animal Books for 2nd Graders

When Girl plays her flute, every note is sad, and her sadness floats into the sky until even the clouds start to cry. Soon rain is falling in the garden, and Rabbit, Bird, and Bee set out over the hill to find out why, with Flower fretting every step of the way. Can these worried critters carry some comfort to a lonely window before the storm gets worse? This story practices two-syllable words with VC/CV division, including ‘rabbit’, ‘garden’, ‘sunny’, ‘golden’, and ‘welcome’.

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! Who is shaking the walls of Skel’s quiet farmhouse in the middle of the night? A trio of llamas has decided the farm is the best party spot in the land - and they’ve invited everyone! Can Skel and Zom stop the woolly riot before the llamas ruin every last crop, or will the chaos only grow? This decodable reader practices vowel team syllables in words like ’trio,’ ‘quiet,’ ‘riot,’ and ‘vial.’