Word list for 2nd graders: Academic vocabulary words for 2nd graders
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Here are the second grade reading skills your child needs to learn this year.
The “D” and “F” of reading (decoding and fluency)
In second grade, decoding and fluency are the most important skills for your child. Decoding is the ability to use patterns to decode words and decipher the separate sounds in words. Fluency is, quite simply, the ability to read quickly and accurately, something that many second graders begin to do by the end of the school year. In the decoding department, second graders should be able to easily distinguish between short and long vowel sounds when reading common one-syllable words. (Remember: long vowels sound just like the letter, like the a in ape. Tip: Here’s a cheat sheet to help your second grader remember the sound short vowels make: a as in apple, e as in egg, i as in igloo, o as in octopus, and u as in umbrella. )
This year kids will get more familiar with vowel teams (e.g. ai in aid, oo in moon, ie in pie, oa in boat, ue in blue). They should also decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels (e.g. table, because, spider, open, and music) and decode words with common prefixes like un- (e.g. unlock, unhappy) or re- (e.g. redo, retell) and use base words they know, such as add, as a clue to decoding new words, such as addition or additional. Second graders also need to recognize grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words, too. (e.g. Words with letters that don’t make their usual sounds, like said.)
As for fluency, second graders need to read silently with enough accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. When reading aloud, kids need to read grade-level text with expression and refine their delivery with each reading.
Related: Watch our Milestone video Does your 2nd grader read smoothly like this?
Exploring fiction and nonfiction
Second graders split their time between fiction and nonfiction. In second and third grades, children are challenged to read text aimed at grades 2 and 3. This year, the expectation is that second graders should get all the help they need with these texts, while next year they’ll ideally need less assistance from adults.
Related: See our list of challenging books for 2nd graders.
Building a knowledge bank
It’s important that kids learn big ideas from every book they read and relate that information to what they already know. Think of it like using reading comprehension skills to build a knowledge bank: with every poem, story, passage, or book they read, there’s a main point, message, or key fact (or two) that your child learns, relates to their experiences or prior knowledge, and “banks” for future use.
Key skills that’ll help your second grader build their knowledge bank:
- Reading quietly and aloud with enough accuracy, expression, and speed to support understanding.
- Being able to retell stories in a way that covers the central message or lesson.
- Describing how characters respond to events and challenges.
- Recognizing a book’s structure and how the beginning introduces what comes next and how the ending concludes the writing.
- Understanding that different characters, narrators, and authors tell stories from different points of view.
- Comparing two or more versions or accounts of the same story (e.g. Cinderella versus Ella Enchanted, or civil rights as explained by a person versus a description in a text book).
Finally, your second grader should learn to use a table of contents, glossary, and website navigation menus and icons to find information.
What do all these standards really look like? It might be your 7-year-old changing voices when reading Matilda to show characters’ different points of view. Or your second grader looking up duck-billed platypuses on the National Geographic Kids website and using the navigation to find information for her report.
Related: Watch our Milestone video Does your 2nd grader read to learn like this?
Show me the evidence!
For second graders, hunting for evidence means finding — and literally pointing to — answers to questions in text and pictures. To answer the question, “What was the first message Charlotte wove into her web to help Wilbur?” your child may remember that is was “Some Pig,” but showing evidence is pretty literal: it means your child should flip through the pages and find the words — or the picture — to point out the answer.
Your child’s teacher will emphasize evidence in different ways this year, but the main skills your child should have include:
- Asking and answering questions about the five W’s — who, what, when, where, and why — to show both understanding and an ability to find answers in a book’s text or illustrations.
- Identifying the main topic in a longer (think 3-5 paragraphs) text and being able to say what the main point of each paragraph is, too.
- Beginning to understand how an author uses reasons to support an idea or argument.
Keep in mind that in second grade, hunting for evidence can be really fun — but it can also be tough. Your second grader may need to try, try, and try again to find some pieces of evidence.
Related: Watch our Milestone video Does your 2nd grader show understanding like this?
An expanding world of words
Now is the time to expose your second grader to plenty of age-appropriate but challenging texts with new and interesting words. Why? The more words a child this age knows, the better she develops great word recognition, a valuable skill for becoming a great reader and learner.
Second graders should be able to use root words and the context of what they read to figure out the meaning of challenging new words. They’ll rely on skills like using prefixes as clues, using known words to predict the meaning of new compound words (e.g. lighthouse, bookmark), and using the rest of the sentence to figure out what a new word means.
Second graders will also begin to recognize the shades of meaning between closely related verbs (e.g. toss, throw, hurl) and adjectives (e.g. thin, slender, skinny, scrawny). Remember: the more your child reads — and the more you discuss books with your child — the more words your child will learn.
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Vocabulary words for grade 2 – lists by topic
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Vocabulary words in Russian studied in grade 2 by topic: things, trade, literature, education, Russian language, nature, time , plants, as well as spelling sections: vowels after c, vowels after hissing, foreign roots, spelling with a hyphen, do not obey the rules, unpronounceable consonants, stunning consonant, continuous spelling, difficult to write, double consonants, ъ and ь sign. nine0004
Select a spelling section to view a list of vocabulary words:
vowels after q, vowels after sibilants, foreign roots, hyphenated spelling, do not obey the rules, unpronounceable consonants, stunning consonant, continuous spelling, difficult to write, doubled consonants, ъ and ь sign.
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Total words: 188
- diamond
- alphabet
- April
- watermelon
- banana
- drum
- ram
- loaf
- birch
- lair
- swamp
- boots
- booth
- like
- beats
- cornflower
- great
- spring
- sparrow
- crow
- heap
- total
- benefit
- city
- peas
- girl
- nine
- duty officer
- tree
- friend
nine0012 steering wheel
nine0012 fast
nine0012 Sunday
nine0012 village
- blackberry
- firebird
- vest
- fence
- plant
- task
- law
- west
- dawn
- entered
- hare
- calling
- mirror
- winter
- frost
- sometimes
- artfully
- true
- cab
- cocoa
- viburnum
- reeds
- drops
- captain
- cabbage
- pencil
- cardboard
- pan
- roller
- cafe
nine0012 riddle
nine0012 calling
nine0012 heel
nine0012 pocket
- boils
- class
- glue
- sorcerer
- elbow
- bell
- constructor
- control
- burner
- skates
- hoof
- hoof
- cow
- which
- coffee
- beauty
- shrimp
- sneakers
- lily of the valley
- eraser
- swallow
- bark
- petal
- downpour
- line
- fox
- shovel
- paddle
nine0012 carpet
nine0012 penny
nine0012 crocodile
nine0012 lemon
List of words with unchecked spelling Grade 2 UMK “Perspektiva” | Methodological development (Russian language, Grade 2) on the topic:
Grade 2
Remember:
I quarter
alphabet
Teacher
Pupil
Gymnasium
Month
September
October
Portfolio 9000
vegetables
garden
carrots
potatoes
cucumber
tomato
garlic
peas
Carbon
Bashing
Raspberry
Tractor
Truck
Bear
Zoo
Group
Once
Loud
then
Like
,0002 Up.
right
first
then
only
now
impossible
everywhere
interesting
shop
Baton
Sugar
Milk
Kefir
Chocolate
breakfast
Dinner
Stairs
47. Cororid
48.Mebel
49. -9000
50. Complex
51 Cartina 9000. Cartin
52. Figure
II quarter
November
December
Congratulation
Respect
time
Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow
boots
004
mittens
Mitives
12. GIRLYAND
13. Best
14. Fully
15. Transparable
16. Camable
17. Ganikula
18. Skates
19. Hockey
Father
man
woman
people
citizen
citizens
surname
Fatherland
Kremlin
Red Square
happiness
0002 Honest
Polish
Sun
Calendar
Dream
Artist
Theater
Concert
Story
Library
9000
suitcase
train
III quarter
envelope
address
telegram
newspaper
costume
Grammar
English
French
Mathematics
Sum
square 9000
twelve
fourteen
sixteen
twenty
million
feel
Lesson
Aroma
Protalina
Swamp
Coast
Street
Transport
Car 9000
44.
driver
45. highway
45. cosmonaut
46. commander
47. spaceport
48. rocket
49. Ship
50. Smart
51. School
52. Hero
53. Soldate
54. Correctly
55. Medely
56. Now
9000 57. Here
9000 58. ATTEN
59. BY
60. Fire
61. Oneloi
IV quarter
palm
Poster
Mlate
Bidon
Walnut
002 Illusionist
Illumination
Illustration
Inna
Intelligence
intellectual
CASALLLA
Casset
kilograms
College
coral
correspondent
cottage
crystal
cross
crossword
Mass
Massage
Metal
Million
Juniper
Mollusk
Narcissa
Odessa
Pano
Passenger
Lesser
9000 spring
Rimma
Russia
quarrel
Saturday
sum
suffix
Susanna
Telegram
Terrace
Territory
tennis
tons
Trolley
Tunnel
Hobbies
Hall
Emma
2).
Words with double consonants in a suffix or formed with a prefix and root, root and suffix
story
support
up
shades
Russian
autumn
Spring
Early
Wall (cabinet)
Window (glass)
Morning
Morning
Wooden
tin
Glass
3). Words with unpronounceable consonants
Bulletin
Distress
giant
sad
Star
Hello
Kapuznaya
bone
Stairs
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City
Blessed
Regional
Eliveliness
pasture
Late
Feast
lovely
joyful
(fog)
Heart
Hand
Happy Cessing
Happy cane
oral
party
private
feeling
sixteen
furious
4). Words
s – CH-
flashed
Domocked
delicious
vowel
Interesting
Vazy
Hanny
Savisor
Fresh
Consistent 9000
clear
Vocabulary words for Grade 2
on the topic: Plants
Peas, head of cabbage, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, vegetable garden, vegetables, cucumber, tomato, plant, lettuce, garlic, harvest, oats, wheat.
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by topic: City
Address, pharmacy, library, shop, alley, street.
by topic: Transport, road
Bus, car, subway, tram, trolley bus, road, highway, driver, ride, distance.
on the subject: Adverbs
Gently, slowly, easily, yesterday, today, tomorrow, one day, now, then, around, everywhere, here, ahead, back, right, left.
on the topic: Motherland
fatherland, Red Square, Kremlin
Soldier, commander, hero, medal, order, memory, monument, obelisk, victory, parade, salute, rocket, ship, space, cosmonaut. nine0004
on the topic: Professions
profession, teacher, grain grower, combine operator, agronomist, tractor driver, engineer, astronaut, designer, captain, commander, correspondent
on the topic: Adjectives
Heavy, yellow, black, hot, ready, iron , city, family, sugar, wheat, milk, apple, berry.
on the topic: Vowels o-e after hissing
Seam, rustle, chocolate, gooseberry, juggler, highway, driver.
Silk, bangs, lye, hard, whisper, lattice, cheap, sleepover, wool. nine0004
on the topic: Words with unpronounceable consonants
Childhood, stairs, neighborhood, holiday, feeling, delicious, wonderful, beautiful, terrible, dangerous, vain, interesting, flash.
1. School
duty
Pencil
Penal
Portfolio
Acker
Pupil
2. Ludges
Girl
Worker
Guards 9000. Gorod 9000 3. Gorod 9000 3. Gorod 9000 3. Gorod 9000 3. Gorod0004
Road
Plant
Red
Square
Kremlin
Shop
Moscow
Street
4. Russia
Rodina
Russia
5. AVTO
Bus
car
6. Animals
cow
dog
puppy
hare
6. Birds
sparrow
crow
04
Soroka
7. Derevyna
Village
Shovel
Milk
Garden
8. Voyshchi
Cabbage
Carrots
Cucumber
Carriers 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000
Plants
watermelon
birch
strawberry
walnut
aspen
apple
berry
10.