2nd Grade · High-Frequency Words
2nd Grade High-Frequency Words — Set 7 compares vowel teams in read, year, few, show, free, and house with silent-e spellings and pronunciation-changing words such as live.
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2nd Grade · High-Frequency Words
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Long e appears as ee in free and as ea in one pronunciation of read. The words few and show end with different teams, ew and ow, while white uses silent e and night uses igh for long i. Keeping each sound tied to its written team helps prevent the spellings from blending together.
The written forms of read and live do not change when their pronunciations change; their notes show what remains stable. In water, pronunciation varies across accents, but the spelling stays wa + ter. The words same and white follow familiar silent-e patterns, while set provides a straightforward short-vowel contrast. In house, keep ou between the opening h and the ending se.
Read always keeps the vowel team ea. The same spelling can rhyme with seed or with bed, depending on when the reading happens.
Pronunciation note: The present-tense form usually rhymes with seed; the past-tense form rhymes with bed. Both are spelled r-e-a-d.
The word year spells its vowel with ea before r. Keep the three-letter ending ear together: y-e-a-r.
Live always ends with ive. It can have the short i sound in give or the long i sound in five, but both pronunciations use the same spelling.
Pronunciation note: The verb in “We live here” has a short i. The adjective in “a live show” has a long i.
