2nd Grade Spelling Lists Worksheets
36 printable 2nd Grade phonics worksheets on Spelling Lists. Every sheet has an answer key — 36 in all. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: Long I — igh; Long-Vowel Teams Review; The Long-A Family; ou, ow-diph; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 2 to 30 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 2. Every grade is on one page: Spelling Worksheets.
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 2, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. Preview a reading week to see how its lessons run. See every program →
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All 36 worksheets in this set
- Spelling Study List 1: Long I — igh Free PDF
- Spelling Study List 2: Long-Vowel Teams Review Free PDF
- Spelling Study List 3: The Long-A Family Free PDF
- Spelling Study List 4: ou, ow-diph
- Spelling Study List 5: oi, oy
- Spelling Study List 6: au, aw
- Spelling Study List 7: Long U — ue and ew
- Spelling Study List 8: The OO Sound
- Spelling Study List 9: rice, face, ice and nice
- Spelling Study List 10: soft-g, dge
- Spelling Study List 11: kn, wr
- Spelling Study List 12: lamb, thumb, limb and wreath
- Spelling Study List 13: happy, puppy, sorry and hungry
- Spelling Study List 14: lady, music, baby and pretend
- Spelling Study List 15: costume, mistake, volume and include
- Spelling Study List 16: The Long-A Family
- Spelling Study List 17: The Long-O Family
- Spelling Study List 18: yellow, crayon, cookie and outside
- Spelling Study List 19: Long U — ue and ew
- Spelling Study List 20: flower, finger, spider and sister
- Spelling Study List 21: Bossy R Review
- Spelling Study List 22: Bossy R — ir and ur
- Spelling Study List 23: bottle, purple, circle and bubble
- Spelling Study List 24: carrot, chicken, blanket and kitten
- Spelling Study List 25: butterfly, afternoon, hamburger and somebody
- Spelling Study List 26: unsafe, unhappy, unfair and unwanted
- Spelling Study List 27: return, react, replace and refill
- Spelling Study List 28: pre-, dis-
- Spelling Study List 29: -ful, -less
- Spelling Study List 30: -ness, -ment
- Spelling Study List 31: -y, -ly
- Spelling Study List 32: drop-e, y-to-i
- Spelling Study List 33: babies, bodies, parties and buddies
- Spelling Study List 34: The ey Sound
- Spelling Study List 35: The ie Sound
- Spelling Study List 36: The -are Sound
Teaching Spelling Lists
What it is
These are weekly lists grouped by one pattern each: the ai words one week, the aw words another, and further on, lists built on a single prefix or suffix. Every word on a list is there because it shares a spelling, so the list teaches a pattern rather than a random handful of words. In Grade 2 the lists are seven words long and follow the vowel teams: igh, the long a family, ou and ow, oi and oy, au and aw.
When a child is ready
A child is ready for a list once the pattern behind it can already be read; spelling a pattern comes after reading it, not before.
If they struggle
If the end-of-week test keeps going badly, shorten the list and study by sound: say the word, count the sounds, write the pattern chunk first, then the rest of the word. Testing two or three words on Tuesday and Thursday finds the errors while there is still time to fix them.
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