2nd Grade High-Frequency Words
2nd Grade High-Frequency Words brings together 84 commonly used spellings in 7 sets of 12 words each.
High-frequency describes how often a word is encountered or used, not that every word has an irregular spelling. Children can rely on sound–spelling knowledge for most of each word, while a handful of less-predictable letters — in words such as people, again, and could — get focused, explicit attention. The sets build cumulatively, moving from shared spelling chunks like any/many and could/would toward vowel teams, syllable patterns, and compounds in later sets.
Where to begin: The 84-word inventory is divided into 7 sets of 12 so a child can work with one manageable group at a time.
- 2nd Grade High-Frequency Words — Set 1 2nd Grade Set 1 groups the shared spellings in any and many and in could and would, distinguishes there from their, and uses chunks to secure longer words such as every, people, and going. 12 words
- 2nd Grade High-Frequency Words — Set 2 2nd Grade Set 2 contrasts the two sounds of oo in school and book, uses vowel teams and consonant patterns across the set, and gives extra attention to should, because, little, been, does, and these. 12 words
- 2nd Grade High-Frequency Words — Set 3 2nd Grade Set 3 connects silent-e words, vowel teams, and familiar endings while giving extra attention to the spellings of goes, word, great, and its. 12 words
- 2nd Grade High-Frequency Words — Set 4 2nd Grade Set 4 uses compounds, syllables, doubled consonants, and vowel teams to organize someone, small, off, until, almost, began, and the set's less transparent words. 12 words
- 2nd Grade High-Frequency Words — Set 5 2nd Grade Set 5 groups high and light by igh, contrasts the vowel teams in took, say, and three, and pinpoints the less expected vowels in young, other, and together. 12 words
- 2nd Grade High-Frequency Words — Set 6 2nd Grade Set 6 organizes familiar consonant patterns and several long-vowel spellings, with focused support for use, work, done, and the meaning-dependent spelling too. 12 words
- 2nd Grade High-Frequency Words — Set 7 2nd Grade Set 7 sorts several spellings for long vowel sounds, reviews silent e and igh, and shows how the written forms of read and live stay fixed when pronunciation changes. 12 words