In second grade, we continue with the Fundations® spelling program. There are 17 units in second grade. Spelling tests begin in October and take place roughly every other week.
From the Fundations website:
Level 2 of Fundations® builds on the basic skills that were learned in Kindergarten and Level 1 and progresses further into the study of word structure.
By the end of Level 2, students will be able to:
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word-analysis skills in decoding words
- Segment syllables into sounds (phonemes)–up to six sounds
Identify word structures such as vowels, consonants, blends, digraphs, and digraph blends - Identify parts of words (syllables, basewords, suffixes)
- Identify all six syllable types: closed, vowel-consonant-e, open, r-controlled, vowel digraph/diphthong, and consonant-le
- Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words
- Read and spell words with short vowels
- Read and spell words with long vowels in vowel-consonant-e and open syllables
- Read and spell words with r-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur)
- Read and spell words with vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ey, ea, oi, oy, oa, ow, oe, ou, oo, ue, ew, au, aw)
- Read and spell words with unexpected vowel sounds (old, ild, ind, ost, olt, ive)
- Read and spell words with suffixes (-s, -es, -ed,-ing, -est, -ish, -able, -ive, -y, -ful, -ment, -less, -ness, -ly, -ty)
- Read and spell words with common prefixes (un-, dis-, mis-, non-, trans-, pre-, pro-, re-, de-)
- Read and spell phonetically regular one-, two- and three-syllable words
- Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences
- Read and spell the first 200 high frequency words including irregular words
- Divide multisyllabic words