2nd grade Spelling Words – The tests are each Friday. The challenge words are extra credit until the 2nd nine weeks of school, after which they are counted as regular words. The sentences will vary, and each word is graded as well as punctuation and capitalization.
Unit 1 Lesson 1 (Because of You)
mild, care, pilot, lady, bake, time, sale, ride, able, kind
Challenge: apron, final, quite, quiet, share
Unit 1 Lesson 2 (For the Love of Our Earth)
menu, nose, most, cure, joke, unit, vote, fuse, soda, mule
Unit 1 Lesson 3 (The Elves and the Shoemaker)
label, vine, bonus, wild, gate, huge, zero, made, spoke, use
Challenge: basic, program, usual, finest, caper
Unit 1 lesson 4 (The Lion and the Mouse)
repay, meter, eve, gene, beside, elect, pretend, these, hero, demand
Challenge: compete, create, evening, delete, eraser
Unit 1 Lesson 5 (Corduroy)
wren, knot, knife, write, phone, graph, wrap, wrist, phase, knit
Challenge: alphabet, wrinkle, known, nephew, photo
Unit 2 Lesson 1 (Ants! They are hard workers!)
real, sleep, we, feel, east, green, team, belong, knee, clear
Challence: peach, cheese, please, between , eagle
Unit 2 Lesson 2 (If You Find a Rock)
stay, rain, base, April, May, chain, trace, play, paid, fable
Challenge: waist, railroad, pavement, flavor, Thursday
Unit 2 Lesson 3 (Hungry Hoppers)
tail, reach, queen, fear, say, gave, sweet, acorn, player, even
Challenge: underneath, always, depend, wait, sneeze
Unit 2 Lesson 4 (Birdhouse for Rent)
age, peace, pencil, magic, ice, digit, face, gem, city, large
Challenge: piece, gentle, tragic, century, excite
Unit 2 Lesson 5 (Tell Me, Tree)
very, germ, cell, civil, chief, funny, thief, rigid, baby, brief,
Challenge: grieve, cancel
Unit 3 Lesson 1 (Red Light, Green Light, Mama & Me)
pie, night, fly, pile, child, right, shy, lie, mice, try
Challenge: recognize, skyscraper, style, knight, mighty
Unit 3 Lesson 2 (In the Money)
store, loan, grow, boat, know, toad, blow, coat, hello, show
Challenge: borrow, coast, below, robot, owe
Unit 3 Lesson 3 (Jalepeno Bagels)
dry, tie, fight, why, tow, soap, below, bike, cone, oak
Challenge: July, twilight, shallow, cocoa, thigh
Unit 3 Lesson 4 (Out and About at City Hall)
cue, hue, few, music, pure, value, mew, cute, human, rescue
Challenge: fury, confuse, view, skew, argue
Unit 3 Lesson 5 (Grandpa’s Corner Store)
open, humid, until, person, cancel, fuel, begin, wagon, number, minus
Challenge: continue, dial, united, radio, moment
Unit 4 Lesson 1 (Animals in Camouflage)
hoop, tooth, mood, igloo, soon, bloom, food, room, pooch, pool,
Challenge: noodle, rooster, school
Unit 4 Lesson 2 (Hungry Little Hare)
clue, blew, lure, June, student, dew, grew, due, ruby, overdue
Challenge: blueberry, salute, fluid, newsroom
Unit 4 Lesson 3 (How to hide an Octopus & Other Sea Creatures)
look, good, soot, shook, stood, foot, brook, wood, hoof, hook
Challenge: uncooked, childhood
Unit 4 Lesson 4 (How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots)
ouch, hour, now, loud, down, sound, town, howl, round
Challenge: birdhouse, outside, shower
Unit 4 Lesson 5 (I See Animals Hiding)
blue, rude, frown, cookie, plow, count, duty, cool, scout, books
Challenge: looser, snowplow
Unit 5 Lesson 1 (Dragons & Giants)
hawk, sauce, thaw, draw, launch, crawl, yawn, author, cause, vault
Challenge: squawk, daunting
Unit 5 Lesson 2 (The Hole in the Dike)
walk, overall, bought, call, always, sought, taught, caught, halt, small
Challenge: daughter, chalk
Unit 5 Lesson 3 (The Empty Pot)
cough, dough, fought, though, thought, rough, although, tough, ought
Challenge: thoughtful, thorough, sourdough
Unit 5 Lesson 4 (Akiak: A Tale from the Iditarod)
join, spoil, annoy, choice, boys, voyage, coin, enjoy, boil, toy
Challenge: royal, appoint, moist
Unit 5 Lesson 5 (Brave as a Mountain Lion)
lawn, haul, recall, stalk, thoughts, naughty, oyster, noise, loyal, rejoice
Challenge: ointment, walnut, because
Unit 6 Lesson 1 (April & Her Family)
flow, flower, cook, cube, tool, took, nook, noon, fume, loom
Challenge: moonbeam, mountain, mowing
Unit 6 Lesson 2 (New Hope)
listen, castle, nestle, whistle, rhino, answer, doubt island, would, could
Challenge: chaos
Unit 6 Lesson 3 (A Picture Book of Martin Luther King)
straw, split, scrape, stretch, splash, scream, sprawl, sprout, strange, scratch Challenge: strength, spry, screen
Unit 6 Lesson 4 (Jingle Dancer)
tawny, tower, pause, pounding, shawl, shower, claw, clown, awe, owl
Challenge: applaud, awkward
Unit 6 Lesson 5 (Cesar E. Chavez)
law, low, boot, book, doom, took, allow, string, spring
Challenge: describe, strict