Grade 2 English: Advanced Phonics and Word Recognition

Free Grade 2 English unit on Advanced Phonics and Word Recognition: 10 lessons in order. Includes practice questions and answer keys.

10 lessons in this unit

Review blends such as bl, st, tr and nd, where two or three consonants are blended and each sound can still be heard.

Review digraphs such as sh, ch, th, wh, ck and ng, where two letters make one new sound.

Learn how a silent e and other patterns make vowels say their names, as in cake, kite and bone.

Read and spell words where two vowels work together to make one sound, such as ai, ay, ee, ea, oa and ow.

Read and spell words where the letter r changes the vowel sound, such as ar, or, er, ir and ur.

Read and spell words with sounds that glide, such as oi, oy, ou and ow as in out and cow.

Break longer words into syllables so they are easier to read and spell, using the vowel sounds as a guide.

Read and spell words with the endings -s, -es, -ed and -ing, and learn how they change a word.

Learn to read and spell common words that do not follow the usual sound patterns, such as said, was, they and because.

Use all your phonics knowledge to read longer words: look for syllables, prefixes, endings and vowel patterns.