List of words for second graders: Academic vocabulary words for 2nd graders

2nd Grade / Spelling Word List

• Spelling Words

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Second Grade (Level B) Spelling Series

Spelling Unit B-1

The first unit in the level-b (2nd grade) spelling series features short-a words. The full spelling list includes the words: bats, has, flat, grab, can, ran, last, sat, as, plan.

Spelling Unit B-2

List B-2 has a set of words with the short-e vowel sound, such as wet, went, end, left, else, pen, sent, yes, rest, and legs.

Spelling Unit B-3

Here’s a link to the third unit in the STW spelling series. All words have the short-i vowel sound. There are also review words from B-1. New words are digs, trick, did, his, flip, wins, kick, if, is, and slip.

Spelling Unit B-4

In the fourth unit, students will learn to spell stop, job, not, spot, top, lot, slot, dock, box, and drop. All of the words have the short-o vowel. This list also has short-e review words from unit B-2.

Spelling Unit B-5

In this unit, students will practice spelling short-u words, such as bugs, until, fun, under, rugs, does, stuck, tub, truck, but, dug, and funny.

Spelling Unit B-6

Spell long-a words, such as rain, made, day, nail, tape, paid, came, play, say, take, snake, and chain.

Spelling Unit B-7

Long-e words are the topic for these lessons: keep, lady, only, deep, because, beak, treat, free, tree, baby, read, and eat.

Spelling Unit B-8

Long-i words are the focus this week. Time, right, dry, sight, eye, sky, nine, kind, high, sides.

Spelling Unit B-9

Unit 9 has long-o words, such as: home, foam, joke, boat, snow, goes, float, own, nose, goal, also, and bowl.

Spelling Unit B-10

Each of the words in this unit has consonant blends. Word list: crab, sweep, trip, black, grams, fast, snap, flame, brush, fact.

Spelling Unit B-11

In unit 11, students will spell words with TH, WH, SH, and CH. List: chair, sheep, why, who, when, both, chart, they, this, crash.

Spelling Unit B-12

In this unit, your class will learn to spell words with -ed and -ing suffixes. Clapping, planned, worrying, sitting, getting, shipped, trapped, tagged, stopping, patted, carried, running.

Spelling Unit B-13

On these worksheets, children will practice spelling singular and plural nouns, such as: mess, messes, desk, desks, kitten, kittens, map, maps, fly, flies, lunch, and lunches.

Spelling Unit B-14

The sounds /g/ and /j/ are the focus of this word list. Game, gold, buggy, huge, jacket, gym, danger, page, just.

Spelling Unit B-15

These words all end with /k/. Duck, leak, steak, cheek, comic, magic, music, back, check, mistake, chalk, and track.

Spelling Unit B-16

This week, students will learn to spell homophones. Word list includes to/two/too, here/hear, bye/buy/by, where/wear, and no/know.

Spelling Unit B-17

These words all have the /s/ sound. Six, since, fence, city, soft, face, ice, price, ask, and slice. Star Words are place and circle.

Spelling Unit B-18

Here’s a unit with words ending in -ng, -nk, and -nd. Bank, stand, lungs, string, thank, band, blink, sang, lend, found, long, and sink.

Spelling Unit B-19

In this unit, your students can learn to spell words with the short-oo and long-oo sound. Book, pool, took, noon, tool, cookie, stood, loops, good, crook, and spoon.

Spelling Unit B-20

The focus of this unit is /ow/ words, such as: how, couch, mouth, house, down, cows, brown, now, round, and about.

Spelling Unit B-21

Contractions are the theme for this week’s words. List includes: can’t, we’d, don’t, wasn’t, hasn’t, doesn’t, you’ll, we’ve, I’ll, won’t, you’d, and we’ll.

Spelling Unit B-22

Learn to read and spell words with r-controlled vowels. Each word has the /ar/ or /or/ sound. Car, store, jar, fork, hard, cord, more, are, start, and sports.

Spelling Unit B-23

This week’s words have the /aw/ sound. Tall, pause, draw, fault, all, claw, lawn, almost, salt, and yawn.

Spelling Unit B-24

The words in this unit are compound words. List includes: cupcake, sometime, into, football, maybe, herself, sidewalk, anything, bulldog, butterfly, bedroom, and without.

Spelling Unit B-25

This unit has words with the long-oo sound, spelled with the letters ue, -u-e, and ew. List includes: suit, drew, blue, fruit, rule, cube, true, new, juice, screw, glue, and flew.

Spelling Unit B-26

These words have the /oi/ sound. Boy, joy, oil, coin, foil, join, annoy, soil, enjoy, and toy.

Spelling Unit B-27

The words in this unit all end with the schwa+l sound, spelled le. Bubble, little, middle, marble, apple, puzzle, angle, and simple.

Spelling Unit B-28

The words on this list all have the schwa+r sound. This is spelled with the letters er, ir, and ur. Bird, after, girl, camper, fur, swirl, hurt, burn, over, and player.

Spelling Unit B-29

Learn to spell singular nouns and their irregular plurals. Words for this unit include: foot, feet, mouse, mice, woman, women, child, children, tooth, teeth, mouse, and mice.

Spelling Unit B-30

This is the final unit in the 2nd grade spelling series. Each word on this list has a silent consonant. Write, knock, wrist, thumb, knee, knight, wrestle, plumber, knew, lamb, sign, and wrong.

Holiday Spelling Units

Halloween Unit (Level B)

This set of spelling resources has Halloween words. All words have a witch theme. Witch, kettle, black, broom, fly, wand, night, moon, brew, and charm.

Thanksgiving Unit (Level B)

Included on this holiday word list are the words dinner, turkey, pie, roll, family, beans, plate, fork, thank, knife, food, butter, and potato.

Christmas Unit (Level B)

This “Santa”-themed holiday unit contains the following words: beard, reindeer, sled, Santa, bag, gift, ho ho ho, boots, candy cane, toys, cookie, milk, North Pole, Mrs. Claus, and red suit.

Easter Unit (Level B)

The Easter list includes the following words: bunny, carrot, egg, ham, spring, color, rabbit, chick, hide, find, hop, candy, and basket.

Theme Units

Baseball Words (Theme)

Here is a baseball-themed spelling unit with the following words: diamond, pitcher, ball, throw, mitt, catch, hit, run, base, runner, slide, safe, batter, field, and out.

Car Parts Words (Theme)

This spelling unit includes words that are all about car parts! The words in this unit include: engine, mirror, hood, tires, wheel, gas cap, key, door, air bag, trunk, seat belt, bumper, radio, window, and lock.

Insects Words (Theme)

Check out the insect-themed words in this spelling unit: beetle, dragonfly, wasp, firefly, ladybug, moth, bee, ant, cricket, butterfly, grasshopper, mantis, bedbug, flea, and wings.

Numbers Words (Theme)

The numbers-themed spelling unit includes the following words: eighteen, eleven, six, three, four, seven, five, two, seventeen, eight, nine, twelve, fifteen, fourteen, and thirteen.

More Spelling

Spelling Level A (1st Grade)

If the Level B spelling lessons are too hard for your students, go on down to the Level A (1st Grade) units.

Spelling Level C (3rd Grade)

If the Level B spelling units are too easy for your student, you may want to jump up to Level C (Grade 3).

Old Spelling Series

Old Spelling Series (Level B)

Here’s a link to the 2nd grade worksheets in our old spelling series. It’s not nearly as good as our new series, but if you’re looking for it… here it is.

Dolch Grade Two

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From 50-75% of
all words used in school books, library books, newspapers, and magazines are in
the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary of 220 words (preschool thru Grade 3). 
The Dolch word list is made up of “service words” (pronouns,
adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and verbs) which cannot be
learned through the use of pictures.

In this section I’ve
included a series of flashcards that can be printed and used to reinforce
learning, the complete list of preschool words (see table) and some activity
ideas for using the flashcards.

Set 1

Set 2

Set 3

Set 3 in color

Nouns 1

Nouns 2

Nouns 1 in color

Nouns 2 in color

Bingo
Cards

Complete Grade Two List

Ideas for Using the Flashcards:

The flashcards can simply be held up, giving the child the opportunity to
read each one.   But if you’re looking for a more engaging activity, try
combining the Dolch flashcards with the noun picture flashcards for a variety of
activities (I’ve listed some suggestions here from simplest to hardest).  If
you’re printing the cards for one of the higher grades, you should consider
printing the ones for previous grades as well — the Dolch words are cummulative
and you’ll be able to make more complex sentences.

• ACTIVITY ONE:

     

  • have an adult arrange the flashcards to form a sentence. 
  • Read the sentence with/to the child
  • Remove one of the dolch words from the sentence and put it back in the
    pile (you may want to make the pile smaller in the beginning to make the
    activity easier). 
  • Give the pile to the child and have them find the correct card to
    place back in the sentence.
  • Re-read the sentence.
• ACTIVITY TWO:

        

  • have an adult arrange the flashcards to form a sentence, leaving one
    card out.
  • read the incomplete sentence with/to the child.
  • present between 2 and 5 cards to the child (one of them should make
    the sentence complete)
  • have the child chose which is the correct card
  • re-read the sentence with the card chosen.  Talk about whether it
    makes sense or not.
• ACTIVITY THREE:
  • provide the child with all or part of the pile of flashcards
  • allow them to create their own sentences using the cards
  • read the sentences with them and talk about what they’ve created.
  • OPTIONAL:  Have them glue their completed sentence to the bottom
    of a piece of construction paper and draw a picture of their sentence on
    the top.  (author/illustrator of their own story).

Words for grade 2, EMC “English in focus” (Spotlight) | Educational and methodological material in a foreign language (Grade 2):

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25 words, the writing of which confuses many

February 23, 2021Education

How to write complex words correctly and remain a literate person.

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1. Traffic

In English, traffic is indeed spelled with a double consonant. However, when borrowing from a foreign language, the second letter is usually lost, which happened with the word “traffic”, so you should write it with only one “f”.

2. Future

The word “future” often gets the letter “u” by analogy with the word “next”. But it is easily disassembled into the root bud- and the suffix -usch-. There is simply no place for an additional sign. If spelling is difficult, you can try to remember through the synonym “future”. Still, even those who doubt very much will not raise their hand to write “the coming one”.

3. Offline

The word “offline”, like “offshore”, “offside”, which are close to it, lost a double consonant when they were entered into dictionaries, which is typical for borrowings. At the same time, if the spelling “offline” can still be explained by confusion with the original language, then the version “offline” is puzzling: in English, the word is also written without a hyphen.

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• TEST: Together, separate or hyphenated? Write 10 words without mistakes!

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Rinses

If you’re not talking to your washing machine, it’s hard to imagine in what situation you might need the word “rinse”. But just in case, it’s worth remembering that you need to correctly give out instructions with the word form “rinse”.

5. Producer

Probably, the extra “s” is formed by analogy with the word “director”. But in both Russian and English, “producer” is written without doubled consonants.

6. Come

The word has gone through many transformations. In old books, it can be found in the versions “come” and “come”. Yes, and the analogy with “go” is clearly visible. However, in dictionaries it is fixed only in one form – “to come.”

7. Grapefruit

No matter how much one would like to make “grapefruit” a full-fledged “fruit”, this word is pronounced in the same way as in the language from which it was borrowed. Otherwise, the first part of the word would have to be Russified, but “grape fruit” does not sound very attractive.

8. Blogger

For foreign words that extort a second consonant, there is a rule: if there is a single-root word, then you should use only one letter from the double ones. A blogger maintains a blog, so he is not allowed to use extra letters.

9. Hardly

According to Fasmer’s etymological dictionary, the unchanging particle “hardly” comes from the word “row”, it can be used as a test word. And the “li” particle is always written separately, so do not be lazy to press the spacebar.

10. Imagine

Frankly speaking, the word “imagination” is not in the vast majority of dictionaries and literary Russian. But it has a certain semantic connotation and can look cute in colloquial speech. At the same time, one does not need to be a linguist to sob with bloody tears from the “vybrazhuli”. So check “imagination” with the word “imagination” and spare other people’s eyes.

11. Ice cream

If ice cream means a calorie bomb made from milk or cream, then this word should always contain one “n”. This noun is formed from an imperfective verb, the letter in such cases is not doubled.

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• QUIZ:​ How good are you at spelling double consonants?

12. Cappuccino

In Italian, from which the name of coffee with milk foam comes, the word cappuccino was generously sprinkled with consonants. But in Russian, none of them is doubled. Therefore, you can nod understandingly when once again instead of cappuccino on the menu you will meet “cappuccino” or “cappuccino”.

13. Mosaic

Whether it’s a picture of tightly packed pieces of glass or a children’s puzzle, forget about bunnies and write correctly: mosaic.

14. Handwriting

The insidious “d” tries to fit in here, but it has no place in the word “handwriting”. Because when you sit down to write a text by hand, you do not intend to emphasize anything, but rather to underline.

15. Bulletin

“Bulletin” is a dictionary word, so you have to memorize it. The fact that it came from the Latin bulla – “ball”, “seal” can help in this.

16. Legitimacy

There are many options for manipulating the word “legitimacy”, but it’s better not to do this and just remember how it is spelled.

17. Realtor

It is difficult to avoid confusion with the word realtor. Office programs do not underline it in red in any spelling, the “Russian Guild of Realtors” insists on the letter “e” in its name, and even the authors of dictionaries cannot come to a consensus. And yet, in the most authoritative Russian spelling dictionary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, edited by Lopatin, the form “realtor” is fixed, it is better to stick to it.

18. Registration

The check word “case” will help you find out which letter is hidden in place of an unstressed vowel, and will not allow you to write “registration” incorrectly.

19. Gynecologist

Gynecologist is not related to the word “gene”, but is very closely related to the Greek “gyneka” – “woman”.

20. Gastarbeiter

Remembering how the word “guest worker” is written is simple: in German gastarbeiter consists of two parts: gast – “guest” and arbeiter – “worker”.

21. Colander

Another word from the German language, where the letters tend to get mixed up. “Colander” comes from durchschlagen, which breaks down into durch – “through”, “through” and schlagen – “hit”. But if the etymology does not help to remember the correct order of the letters, you can go the associative path, especially since the word is so consonant with a popular curse word.

22. Calories

The word “calorie” was borrowed from French. Calorie entered the Russian language practically unchanged, there are no double consonants in it.

23. Vinaigrette

The name of the salad comes from the French vinaigre – “vinegar”, and it – from the word vin – “wine”. This makes it easier to remember how to properly describe the vegetable mixture. As for the second vowel in a word, it is enough to remember that it does not coincide with the first. Then you will write “vinaigrette” without a single mistake.

24. Shopping

In English, shopping is spelled with a double consonant, and many people want to transfer the two “p” and into Russian. Fight this desire and remember that there are words with the same root, for example, a shop tour. And if they use only one “p”, then in “shopping” you do not need to double the consonant.

25. Terrorist attack

The abbreviation of the phrase “terrorist act” begs for a second consonant, but you should not negotiate with him. According to the rules for the formation of abbreviations, only one of the two consonants is written in them. Therefore, it is correct to write “terrorist attack”.

What words do you stumble over? Write in the comments.

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How many words per minute a child in 1st grade should read

Reading is an important skill , that children begin to master literally from the first days of schooling. Reading speed is directly related to academic performance. Therefore, in each grade of elementary school, teachers periodically check the reading technique of children. Let’s find out how many words per minute a child should read in grade 1 and how to increase reading speed.

First grade reading technique

In Russian schools, the reading technique of primary school students is tested twice during the school year – in the first half of the year and in the second. Some teachers do this every quarter. Such a check is needed to evaluate the following indicators:

• Reading method. The teacher watches how the child reads: he reads the words in full or syllable by syllable or even by letter, pronounces them smoothly or abruptly, whether he slows down on complex and long words.
• Reading speed. This is the speed with which a first grader is able to read an unfamiliar text (how many words per minute he reads).
• Correct. The teacher pays attention not only to the number of words read per minute, but also to the correctness of their pronunciation. The nature of these errors is also taken into account (incorrect pronunciation, omission of some words, incorrect emphasis).
• Awareness. The student must not only read the text, but also grasp its essence, understand what it is about.

The main indicator that the teacher focuses on is the number of words that the student reads in one minute. According to the norms, by the end of the first semester, a first-grader should read 25-30 words, and by the end of the second – 30-40 words.

Games with which the child will love to read and write

How to improve the reading technique of a first grader?

If your child does not reach the specified norm, do not be discouraged. Reading technique can be improved and it’s not that hard. To do this, you need to start reading regularly at home. But don’t force your child to do it by force. Reading should give him pleasure. And this is possible only if it causes interest.

Try to instill in your son or daughter a love of reading. To do this, select the literature that is interesting to him. It can be fairy tales, stories and stories about animals, fantastic stories or something else. Many children like children’s detective stories. The twisted plot involuntarily attracts the attention of the child, prompting him to read on.

Study different literature with your child and find out what he likes. Remember what you yourself loved to read as a child, find these books and offer them to your son or daughter. Good for first-graders:

• Russian folk tales and tales of the peoples of the world;
• fairy tales by G. H. Andersen, A. Pushkin, the Brothers Grimm, C. Perrault;
• stories by N. Nosov, V. Dragunsky, E. Uspensky, M. Zoshchenko.

Having selected the most interesting works, proceed to the training of reading technique. Choose a convenient time when you are not in a hurry. If the book is electronic, download it to your phone or tablet and set the font that is comfortable for the student.

Convenient holders for tablets, whiteboards and books

Sit with your child and have them read aloud to you. Don’t rush him. The main thing is not the speed of reading, but the correct pronunciation of words. The speed will develop by itself with regular practice. Correct the student if he reads incorrectly, explain the meaning of unfamiliar words. The child should not just read, but understand what the text is about. Be sure to discuss what you read and ask questions.

Read 20 minutes a day. This is quite enough, it is only necessary that the classes be regular. If the child is carried away by the work and wants to read further – please. The main thing is that he does not do it through force, otherwise the classes will begin to disgust him.

Some strict parents force the child to read for hours, thereby literally instilling in him a dislike for this occupation. Growing up, such children do not touch books for a very long time. So don’t overdo reading. Don’t forget to take breaks for games 🙂

Tips for improving the reading technique of a first grader

To read not only quickly, but also expressively, it is useful to pronounce tongue twisters. Find tongue twisters to practice different letters and sounds and have your son or daughter memorize them. Let him repeat them at any convenient time – on the way to school, during the game, etc. Patter is excellent for training the speed and clarity of speech.

Notice how the child breathes while reading aloud. If he stops in mid-sentence to take a breath, he is not breathing properly. You need to pronounce the phrase on the exhale, and take in air in the pause between sentences. Let the child practice taking in more air into the lungs and reading the entire sentence. Proper breathing will make speech smoother and speed up the pace of reading.