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    2nd Grade Spelling Words by Week

    Each week's list follows that week's phonics pattern: 12 words, 2 challenge words and a sentence to dictate on Friday.

    Week 1

    Short vowels and silent e (CVC, CVCe)

    1. cat
    2. bed
    3. sit
    4. hop
    5. bug
    6. cake
    7. bike
    8. rope
    9. cute
    10. made
    11. pine
    12. home

    Challenge: stripe, shine

    Dictation: The cat sat on my bed.

    Go to Week 1

    Week 2

    Vowel teams ai, ay, ee, ea

    1. rain
    2. train
    3. wait
    4. mail
    5. play
    6. stay
    7. day
    8. green
    9. sleep
    10. tree
    11. leaf
    12. beach

    Challenge: today, please

    Dictation: We play in the rain on the green grass.

    Go to Week 2

    Week 3

    Vowel teams oa, ow (long o); two-syllable words

    1. boat
    2. coat
    3. road
    4. soap
    5. goat
    6. snow
    7. grow
    8. slow
    9. show
    10. yellow
    11. window
    12. rainbow

    Challenge: sailboat, oatmeal

    Dictation: The goat ate soap on the road.

    Go to Week 3

    Week 4

    Silent e review; r-controlled ar, or, er, ir, ur

    1. hope
    2. stone
    3. bone
    4. tube
    5. flute
    6. these
    7. car
    8. star
    9. corn
    10. storm
    11. bird
    12. turn

    Challenge: north, nurse

    Dictation: A bird sat on the car in the storm.

    Go to Week 4

    Week 5

    Prefixes un-, re-, pre-

    1. unlock
    2. untie
    3. unfair
    4. unpack
    5. unkind
    6. undo
    7. redo
    8. refill
    9. reread
    10. retell
    11. preheat
    12. preschool

    Challenge: rebuild, preview

    Dictation: Unpack the bag and refill the cup.

    Go to Week 5

    Week 6

    Review: vowel teams, silent e, r-controlled, prefixes

    1. stay
    2. sleep
    3. boat
    4. glow
    5. mail
    6. yellow
    7. plane
    8. girl
    9. repaint
    10. unload
    11. because
    12. people

    Challenge: sneeze, retreat

    Dictation: The girl will stay on the boat.

    Go to Week 6

    Week 7

    Suffixes -ful, -less, -ly, -ness

    1. helpful
    2. careful
    3. thankful
    4. useful
    5. careless
    6. fearless
    7. endless
    8. slowly
    9. quickly
    10. softly
    11. kindness
    12. darkness

    Challenge: cheerful, brightness

    Dictation: Be careful and walk slowly in the darkness.

    Go to Week 7

    Week 8

    Irregular and high-frequency words

    1. their
    2. would
    3. which
    4. does
    5. gave
    6. those
    7. write
    8. always
    9. been
    10. many
    11. very
    12. goes

    Challenge: should, thought

    Dictation: They would always write to their friend.

    Go to Week 8

    Week 9

    Syllable types: closed, open, silent e, consonant-le

    1. rabbit
    2. napkin
    3. basket
    4. picnic
    5. kitten
    6. tiger
    7. robot
    8. paper
    9. cupcake
    10. inside
    11. turtle
    12. candle

    Challenge: cactus, jungle

    Dictation: The rabbit ate a cupcake at the picnic.

    Go to Week 9

    Week 10

    Base words with endings; compound words

    1. sunflower
    2. honeybee
    3. ladybug
    4. raindrop
    5. treetop
    6. planted
    7. feeding
    8. hatched
    9. hatches
    10. flying
    11. flies
    12. helper

    Challenge: grasshopper, migrated

    Dictation: A ladybug is flying to the sunflower.

    Go to Week 10

    Week 11

    Review: -ed endings and heart words

    1. jumped
    2. landed
    3. wanted
    4. played
    5. filled
    6. walked
    7. needed
    8. again
    9. another
    10. animal
    11. thunder
    12. honey

    Challenge: through, freezing

    Dictation: The animal jumped and landed again.

    Go to Week 11

    Week 12

    Review: suffixes, syllables, high-frequency words

    1. useful
    2. sadness
    3. restless
    4. kindly
    5. tiger
    6. candle
    7. paper
    8. blossom
    9. seedling
    10. because
    11. would
    12. through

    Challenge: habitat, caterpillar

    Dictation: The tiger was restless because it was hot.

    Go to Week 12

    Week 13

    Word families -ack, -ick, -ump, -ing, -ight

    1. snack
    2. black
    3. track
    4. quick
    5. stick
    6. brick
    7. jump
    8. bump
    9. bring
    10. swing
    11. night
    12. light

    Challenge: flight, bright

    Dictation: We jump on the black track at night.

    Go to Week 13

    Week 14

    Compound words; contractions

    1. backpack
    2. popcorn
    3. toothbrush
    4. sidewalk
    5. homework
    6. snowman
    7. can't
    8. didn't
    9. it's
    10. we're
    11. I'll
    12. don't

    Challenge: fireplace, couldn't

    Dictation: I can't find my backpack or my homework.

    Go to Week 14

    Week 15

    Review in ABC order: short vowels, silent e, vowel teams, r-controlled

    1. shark
    2. fin
    3. gill
    4. whale
    5. seal
    6. skin
    7. spine
    8. swim
    9. sand
    10. sting
    11. fish
    12. tail

    Challenge: ocean, tooth

    Dictation: A seal and a shark swim fast.

    Go to Week 15

    Week 16

    Review: suffixes, endings, word families, contractions

    1. hopeful
    2. harmless
    3. gladly
    4. fairness
    5. lonely
    6. buzzed
    7. hopped
    8. thump
    9. quack
    10. bedroom
    11. won't
    12. isn't

    Challenge: enormous, delighted

    Dictation: The lonely duck said quack and hopped away.

    Go to Week 16

    Week 17

    Suffixes -er, -est; roots with prefixes and suffixes

    1. taller
    2. tallest
    3. faster
    4. fastest
    5. softer
    6. softest
    7. louder
    8. loudest
    9. hunter
    10. player
    11. unhappy
    12. playful

    Challenge: quieter, quietest

    Dictation: The hunter is taller and faster than me.

    Go to Week 17

    Week 18

    Review: story words for fluency

    1. stone
    2. pot
    3. feast
    4. hungry
    5. hidden
    6. clever
    7. river
    8. forest
    9. spider
    10. sky
    11. race
    12. nap

    Challenge: village, delicious

    Dictation: The clever cook put a stone in the pot.

    Go to Week 18

    Week 19

    Two sounds: ea, ow, oo; ie and ey

    1. bread
    2. head
    3. ready
    4. cow
    5. town
    6. down
    7. moon
    8. spoon
    9. book
    10. foot
    11. pie
    12. key

    Challenge: piece, money

    Dictation: Get ready to go down to town.

    Go to Week 19

    Week 20

    Irregular words; wa says /wo/; o says short u

    1. said
    2. were
    3. come
    4. some
    5. friend
    6. water
    7. want
    8. watch
    9. wash
    10. mother
    11. brother
    12. once

    Challenge: above, month

    Dictation: My friend and mother want some water.

    Go to Week 20

    Week 21

    Irregular past-tense verbs

    1. went
    2. came
    3. ran
    4. saw
    5. took
    6. ate
    7. got
    8. knew
    9. grew
    10. flew
    11. threw
    12. swam

    Challenge: caught, brought

    Dictation: The chick grew and then swam.

    Go to Week 21

    Week 22

    Review: -ed endings and two-syllable words

    1. shadow
    2. meadow
    3. silent
    4. whisper
    5. echo
    6. watching
    7. whispered
    8. shouted
    9. asked
    10. cried
    11. called
    12. friend

    Challenge: breakfast, disappeared

    Dictation: My friend whispered in the shadow.

    Go to Week 22

    Week 23

    Review: syllables, affixes, compounds, contractions, vowel teams

    1. frozen
    2. cabin
    3. pilot
    4. unclear
    5. colder
    6. coldest
    7. sadly
    8. barnyard
    9. doorway
    10. wasn't
    11. sleet
    12. hail

    Challenge: blizzard, tornado

    Dictation: The pilot was in the cabin when the hail came.

    Go to Week 23

    Week 24

    Review: chunking long words

    1. button
    2. spider
    3. music
    4. tiny
    5. lemon
    6. pudding
    7. wonderful
    8. friendship
    9. remembered
    10. whipped
    11. gathering
    12. promised

    Challenge: interesting, delicious

    Dictation: The spider remembered the wonderful music.

    Go to Week 24

    Week 25

    Review: vowel teams ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, ow

    1. paint
    2. chain
    3. tray
    4. away
    5. seed
    6. street
    7. three
    8. teach
    9. dream
    10. toast
    11. float
    12. throw

    Challenge: seaweed, raincoat

    Dictation: Three toy boats float away.

    Go to Week 25

    Week 26

    Review: prefixes and suffixes

    1. unhappy
    2. unsafe
    3. return
    4. replay
    5. prepay
    6. precook
    7. joyful
    8. spotless
    9. sadly
    10. kindly
    11. illness
    12. sweetness

    Challenge: happily, happiness

    Dictation: She was joyful when her room was spotless.

    Go to Week 26

    Week 27

    Review: r-controlled ar, or, er, ir, ur

    1. garden
    2. market
    3. sharp
    4. barn
    5. horse
    6. morning
    7. short
    8. sport
    9. herd
    10. shirt
    11. dirt
    12. hurt

    Challenge: thirsty, forest

    Dictation: The horse ran to the barn in the morning.

    Go to Week 27

    Week 28

    Review: closed and open syllables

    1. insect
    2. blossom
    3. sudden
    4. trumpet
    5. velvet
    6. magnet
    7. tulip
    8. human
    9. moment
    10. open
    11. sunset
    12. problem

    Challenge: canopy, tropical

    Dictation: An insect sat on the tulip blossom.

    Go to Week 28

    Week 29

    Review: high-frequency words

    1. around
    2. before
    3. both
    4. every
    5. found
    6. goes
    7. these
    8. upon
    9. also
    10. carry
    11. only
    12. know

    Challenge: laugh, enough

    Dictation: We found these shells around the pond before lunch.

    Go to Week 29

    Week 30

    Cumulative review: long vowels, r-controlled, affixes, compounds

    1. cake
    2. cube
    3. stripe
    4. feet
    5. unlock
    6. preheat
    7. farm
    8. bird
    9. raincoat
    10. birdhouse
    11. sunlight
    12. isn't

    Challenge: farmhouse, snowflake

    Dictation: The bird sat on the birdhouse in the sunlight.

    Go to Week 30

    Week 31

    Review: all decoding patterns

    1. meal
    2. wait
    3. dream
    4. time
    5. hope
    6. mule
    7. corn
    8. unkind
    9. helpless
    10. slowly
    11. cookies
    12. window

    Challenge: mountain, avalanche

    Dictation: Wait for the cookies after your meal.

    Go to Week 31

    Week 32

    Review: suffixes, compound words, high-frequency words

    1. powerful
    2. fearless
    3. sharpness
    4. eyesight
    5. nighttime
    6. backbone
    7. wildlife
    8. something
    9. stripes
    10. which
    11. work
    12. wish

    Challenge: predator, solitary

    Dictation: Something with stripes came out at nighttime.

    Go to Week 32

    Week 33

    Silent letters kn, wr, mb, gn, gh; contraction 've

    1. knee
    2. knock
    3. knife
    4. wrong
    5. wrap
    6. wrist
    7. lamb
    8. climb
    9. thumb
    10. gnat
    11. ghost
    12. we've

    Challenge: knuckle, gnaw

    Dictation: I hurt my knee and my thumb.

    Go to Week 33

    Week 34

    Review: mixed patterns from the year

    1. train
    2. green
    3. yellow
    4. stone
    5. storm
    6. rewrite
    7. thankful
    8. darkness
    9. kitten
    10. spoon
    11. head
    12. wouldn't

    Challenge: remember, sanctuary

    Dictation: A green train went by in the storm.

    Go to Week 34

    Week 35

    Review: fluency celebration words

    1. pig
    2. toast
    3. butter
    4. porch
    5. window
    6. sleep
    7. dream
    8. night
    9. careful
    10. quickly
    11. didn't
    12. friend

    Challenge: delicious, wonderful

    Dictation: The pig ate toast with butter.

    Go to Week 35

    Week 36

    Year-end review: all patterns

    1. rain
    2. boat
    3. shape
    4. bike
    5. farm
    6. storm
    7. unfair
    8. hopeful
    9. kindness
    10. blanket
    11. pencil
    12. knee

    Challenge: celebrate, knight

    Dictation: Put the blanket in the boat before the storm.

    Go to Week 36