Second Grade Spelling Words
My list of second grade spelling words is a great resource for parents,
teachers and students. Use these words for oral and
written
practice, for spelling games
and worksheets. These words were carefully chosen after researching both online and hard-copy published resources.
Remember to
teach 2nd graders only a few words at a
time. About 8-10 words per week is good for most 2nd
graders. When possible, group words in families, such as light, night, and
right.
Encourage
your child to use his spelling words often, both in
wonderful stories from his own imagination, and in factual reports from the world around him.
List of Second Grade Spelling Words
Printable List of 175 Second Grade Spelling Words
| a lot | after | again | air | also |
| always | animal | another | any | around |
| ask | away | back | barn | bath |
| because | been | before | best | better |
| between | blend | boat | both | bright |
| brother | buy | call | cannot | child |
| clean | clock | cold | could | count |
| deep | deer | dish | does | don't |
| dress | drip | drive | drop | drum |
| each | eight | eleven | end | even |
| every | family | fast | fed | feed |
| fight | first | found | friend | gave |
| give | goat | goes | good | great |
| grin | happy | help | here | high |
| him | home | house | its | jump |
| just | kind | kiss | large | light |
| line | lion | list | little | lock |
| long | look | loud | lunch | made |
| mess | might | most | much | must |
| new | night | nine | now | off |
| only | or | our | out | path |
| place | plus | pool | put | rabbit |
| read | rest | right | rock | said |
| says | sea | second | seem | send |
| seven | shape | sight | silly | sing |
| sister | slid | slip | snack | speed |
| song | soon | sound | stamp | state |
| still | stone | such | summer | take |
| tell | their | them | there | these |
| thing | think | ton | too | tray |
| treat | trick | tune | twelve | under |
| upon | us | use | very | wash |
| well | went | where | which | who |
| why | winter | wish | work | would |
| write | yard | year | yet | your |
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Second grade worksheets - Find my People Puzzler here, along with many other unique reproducibles that give your students fun spelling practice.
2nd grade spelling activities and games - Get your students working and thinking together as they practice their spelling words.
Second grade spelling fun: Puzzlers and brain teasers - Play these on the board with the whole class or use paper and pencil at home for some critical thinking and spelling fun.
To give your students practice in using spelling words in context, try some of my Writing Prompts for Kids. I've written two sets of 2nd grade prompts. Each prompt contains at least one of the words from the second grade spelling word list above. My printable page contains fun illustrations to further engage your students.
Whole Class Activities for 2nd grade spelling - Your students are sure to enjoy playing "Stand & Spell" and "Identity Riddles"! I've written these games to be used again and again with different spelling words each time. So once your students know how these games work, they'll want to play them over and over! It's SO EASY to practice spelling!
Color Land Game
- Kids practice spelling color
words as they try to reach the finish
line. Follow the link to find my printable game board and playing cards. Laminate the board for best results so kids can use it again and again. Best for early learners.
Compound Word Wizards - Whole class or large-group activity for practicing compound words. This game is great for your top second graders or third grade students.
Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.
Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.
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