Second grade is where reading shifts from decoding to understanding, and math shifts from counting to thinking. This workbook gets your child ready for both.
Fifteen pages built for one specific transition: finishing first grade and starting second. Every skill on these pages was chosen because a rising second grader will need it — place value that makes two-digit work possible, fluency that frees up brain space, and reading passages long enough to build real stamina.
Our approach is slow on purpose. Concepts cycle back instead of disappearing after one page, because a skill practiced once in June is gone by August. Practiced three times across the book, in slightly different forms, it stays.
📘 What's Inside
15 pages in our signature bridge structure
A parent "How to Use" guide with pacing guidance
10 content pages alternating reading and math
Reading: fluency passages, comprehension questions, and vocabulary in context
Math: place value to 100, two-digit addition and subtraction, fact fluency, and word problems
A cumulative Mixed Challenge covering everything in the book
A student reflection page for self-assessment
Complete answer key
Clean, age-appropriate layout with real work space
🎯 Perfect For
First grade graduates heading into second
Families who want one book covering both subjects
Keeping hard-won reading and math skills through the summer
Tutors running a summer bridge program
Homeschool summer units between grade levels
📝 How It Works
Download instantly and print the workbook.
Start with the How to Use page — it changes how the rest lands.
One content page per session, four or five days a week.
Have your child explain their thinking out loud, especially on the math pages.
Finish with the Mixed Challenge, then the reflection page together.
