= Partner Site2nd Grade Spelling Words
This 31-week 2nd grade spelling curriculum builds systematically from short and long vowels through blends, vowel teams, R-controlled patterns, diphthongs, contractions, and suffixes. Each weekly list includes 16 spelling words plus bonus words and sight words for additional practice.
2nd Grade Spelling Words for 1st Quarter: Vowels, Blends & Double Consonants
Students review short and long vowel patterns, comparing words like cap/cape and fin/fine. They practice L, R, and S blends (swim, frame, glide), ending blends (-nd, -nk, -ng, -mp), and double consonant patterns in words like class, doll, and stiff.
Week 1 Spelling List
Week 1 spelling list featuring short a and short i words including fix, mask, glad, bit, list, fit, flat, cat, rid, win, sad, wig, bag, thin, task, and mat plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 2 Spelling List
Week 2 spelling list focusing on short e, short o, and short u words including left, jog, job, frog, melt, hug, belt, hum, nod, plum, yes, mud, shut, web, dot, yet, loft, and plug plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 3 Spelling List
Week 3 spelling list featuring long a and long i words including mine, ate, race, line, pile, plane, plate, size, cane, wipe, cake, grape, rice, rake, prize, and bike plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 4 Spelling List
Week 4 spelling list focusing on long o and long u words including use, doze, close, nose, June, globe, tune, woke, cube, rude, pole, mute, home, rule, huge, and rode plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 5 Spelling List
Week 5 spelling list reviewing short vowels and long vowels including cut, robe, cap, cute, tap, cube, cape, rob, rid, slide, slid, tape, fin, ride, fine, and cub plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 6 Spelling List
Week 6 spelling list featuring l blends, r blends, and s blends including swim, test, frame, last, prize, globe, skin, grade, flame, Brad, glide, black, just, club, space, drag, place, and drum plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 7 Spelling List
Week 7 spelling list focusing on ending blends -nd, -nk, -ng, -nt, -mp, and -xt including sing, drink, stamp, bend, sank, long, bring, hunt, bump, text, hint, tent, junk, next, pond, stand, and camp plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 8 Spelling List
Week 8 spelling list featuring double consonants -ll, -ss, -dd, and -ff including class, doll, cuff, off, fell, stiff, add, spill, mess, odd, and dress plus bonus words and sight words.
2nd Grade Spelling Words for 2nd Quarter: Digraphs, Vowel Teams & Plurals
With blends mastered, students refine digraph skills (sh, th, ch, wh) and explore vowel teams: AI/AY (train, gray), EE/EA (teeth, reach), and OA/OW (coach, grow). They learn multiple long I spellings (igh, y, i_e), study homophones (meet/meat, tale/tail), and practice plural rules with -s and -es.
Week 09 Spelling List
Week 9 spelling list focusing on digraphs sh, th, ch, and wh including than, white, thin, flash, shine, these, push, while, such, chase, chest, and which plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 10 Spelling List
Week 10 spelling list featuring -ck, -k, and -ke words including smoke, desk, Luke, snuck, milk, plunk, lake, ask, black, trick, snake, Chuck, trike, drink, and truck plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 11 Spelling List
Week 11 spelling list focusing on ai and ay vowel teams including away, gray, train, spray, pail, tray, hay, plain, train, pray, stain, pay, drain, paint, clay, and wait plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 12 Spelling List
Week 12 spelling list featuring ee and ea vowel teams including speak, reach, meaning, squeeze, free, team, teeth, sneeze, sheep, feed, each, teach, weave, wheel, please, and three plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 13 Spelling List
Week 13 spelling list focusing on oa and ow vowel patterns including show, blow, coach, below, throw, grow, loaf, know, groan, own, goat, soap, Joan, flow, float, and roast plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 14 Spelling List
Week 14 spelling list featuring igh, i, y, and i_e long i patterns including knife, climb, fly, night, child, spy, bright, kind, shine, shy, high, and write plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 15 Spelling List
Week 15 spelling list focusing on homophones including bee/be, week/weak, here/hear, two/to, meet/meat, mane/main, tale/tail, and red/read plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 16 Spelling List
Week 16 spelling list featuring add -s or add -es plural rules including wish, egg, dress, dish, brush, fox, glass, pouch, grape, name, bell, branch, hen, belt, bike, and bee plus bonus words and sight words.
2nd Grade Spelling Words for 3rd Quarter: R-Controlled Vowels & Variant Patterns
Students tackle the “bossy R” patterns: AR (shark, star), OR/ORE (storm, tore), and ER (fern, mother). They explore soft and hard C/G sounds (city vs. coat, gym vs. goal), then master tricky vowel patterns like -OOK/-OOD (book, wood), EW/OO (grew, room), and diphthongs OW/OU (house, flower) and AW/AL (saw, salt).
Week 17 Spelling List
Week 17 spelling list focusing on soft c, soft g, hard c, and hard g including goal, gym, cot, city, brag, page, nice, stage, gone, face, cone, and crash plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 18 Spelling List
Week 18 spelling list featuring -ar, -ark, -ard, and -art R-controlled patterns including dark, jar, hard, smart, star, Marty, shark, yard, chart, spark, card, and car plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 19 Spelling List
Week 19 spelling list focusing on or and ore R-controlled patterns including storm, north, chore, more, worn, glory, core, stork, tore, store, morning, snore, sore, bore, thorn, and forget plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 20 Spelling List
Week 20 spelling list featuring -er at the end and -er in the middle including fern, over, water, clerk, germ, verb, cracker, herd, every, master, cover, father, herb, and mother plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 21 Spelling List
Week 21 spelling list focusing on -ook, -ood, -oot, and -oof patterns including hoof, wood, hood, nook, good, shook, took, crook, stood, foot, cookbook, and soot plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 22 Spelling List
Week 22 spelling list featuring ew and oo vowel patterns including crew, root, boost, flew, knew, few, broom, stew, grew, spoon, threw, scoop, gloom, drew, bloom, and room plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 23 Spelling List
Week 23 spelling list focusing on ow and ou diphthongs including loud, found, meow, gown, house, cow, shout, shower, mouse, flower, sound, town, pound, ground, down, and cower plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 24 Spelling List
Week 24 spelling list featuring aw, ai, and all patterns including salt, crawl, talk, saw, palm, thaws, call, alter, fawn, tall, draw, fall, paw, dawn, yawn, and small plus bonus words and sight words.
2nd Grade Spelling Words for 4th Quarter: Diphthongs, Contractions & Inflections
In the final quarter, students complete diphthong study with OI/OY (coin, royal), then distinguish compound words (sunshine, playground) from non-compounds. They master contractions (don’t, we’ve, they’re), soft G patterns with -dge and -ge (bridge, huge), and finish with inflectional endings—learning how base words change with -ed and -ing (hop/hopped/hopping, bake/baked/baking) and exploring Y as a vowel (sunny, butterfly).
Week 25 Spelling List
Week 25 spelling list focusing on oi and oy diphthongs including royal, spoil, foyer, droid, enjoy, boy, join, joy, coin, Troy, voice, toy, point, ploy, and soil plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 26 Spelling List
Week 26 spelling list featuring compound and non-compound words including pencil, someone, service, maybe, window, monkey, classroom, outside, sunny, fishing, playground, sunshine, nothing, and boxes plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 27 Spelling List
Week 27 spelling list focusing on contractions with not, is, have, and oddballs including you'll, that's, aren't, they've, who's, you've, we've, it's, he'd, wasn't, we're, and don't plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 28 Spelling List
Week 28 spelling list featuring dge and ge patterns including stage, large, edge, orange, smudge, cage, badge, bridge, pledge, age, huge, dodge, urge, ridge, change, and judge plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 29 Spelling List
Week 29 spelling list focusing on base words with -ed and -ing suffixes including clap, rubbed, pinning, hop, pinned, stopping, pin, stop, rubbing, hopping, bat, clapped, batting, rub, hopped, batted, clapping, and stopped plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 30 Spelling List
Week 30 spelling list featuring base words with past tense and present tense including close, hoped, hiding, bake, starved, chasing, hide, use, starving, like, chased, using, hope, closed, liking, baking, hoping, and baked plus bonus words and sight words.
Week 31 Spelling List
Week 31 spelling list focusing on y sounds like e and y sounds like i including apply, silly, supply, baby, cry, penny, why, only, lucky, July, carry, twenty, butterfly, sky, fry, and sunny plus bonus words and sight words.
How can this curriculum help students improve reading and writing? This 31-week curriculum advances students from vowel and blend review through complex patterns like R-controlled vowels, diphthongs, contractions, and inflectional endings. Second graders learn to decode multisyllabic words and spell words with suffixes—skills essential for the longer texts they’ll encounter. The systematic progression strengthens both reading fluency and writing accuracy as students internalize reliable spelling patterns.
What research supports this curriculum? This curriculum uses systematic, explicit phonics instruction aligned with the Science of Reading. Patterns build logically—students review vowel teams before tackling R-controlled vowels, master base words before adding suffixes, and study individual patterns before comparing similar ones (like OW/OU and OI/OY). This structured approach helps students transfer known patterns to new words, which research shows improves both spelling accuracy and reading comprehension.
How do I use these weekly spelling lists? Each weekly list includes 16 core spelling words, bonus words for students ready for more challenge, and sight words for continued high-frequency practice. Introduce 3-4 words per day through dictation, word sorts, and writing activities. For inflectional ending weeks (like -ed and -ing), have students practice building word families from base words. The sight words progress in difficulty throughout the year, supporting vocabulary growth alongside spelling skills.
