Benchmark Advance

Grade 2 Phonics Skills and Spelling Words

Unit
	Week
	Phonics
	Spiral Review
	Spelling Words

1
	
1
	
Short Vowels, Initial Blends, Final Blends, Consonant Digraphs

N/A
	
run, him, box, flag, jump, stand, wet, this, chest, shop

2
	
Closed and Open Syllables; Initial Three-Letter Blends

N/A
	
go, we, hi, no, she, napkin, dentist, problem, open, silent

3

Long a: ai, a, ea, ay

Final-e
	
day, rain, mail, play, paint, stay, break, great, chain, say

2
	
1

Long o: oa, o, oe, ow

Long a
	
float, grow, cold, loaf, going, roast, bowl, both, throw, soap

2
	
Long e: ee, ea, e, e_e, y, ey, ie; Plurals

Long o
	
tree, need, clean, read, key, happy, funny, leaf, queen, piece

3

Long i: ie, i, y, igh

Long e
	
child, high, kind, cried, sky, tried, night, light, dry, bright

3
	
1

Long u: ew, ue, u, u_e

Long i
	
use, few, cute, huge, cube, music, rescue, menu, fuel, January

2
	
r-Controlled Vowel ar; Inflectional Endings -ed, -ing

Long u
	
car, star, march, smart, hard, farm, large, shark, garden, yard

3

r-Controlled Vowels er, ir, ur

r-Controlled Vowel ar
	
bird, hurt, her, nurse, girl, shirt, burn, third, never, winter

4
	
1

r-Controlled Vowel or, oar, ore

r-Controlled Vowels er, ir, ur
	
fork, born, more, store, oars, roar, horn, before, sports, wore

2
	
r-Controlled Vowels ear, eer, ere; Contractions

r-Controlled Vowel or, oar, ore
	
year, deer, near, clear, here, cheer, fear, ears, hear, steer

3

r-Controlled Vowels air, are, ear, ere

r-Controlled Vowels ear, eer, ere
	
where, hair, pear, care, share, stairs, square, bear, wear, chair

5
	
1
	
Vowel-Consonant-e and Consonant-le Syllables

r-Controlled Vowels air, are, ear, ere
	
apple, baseball, hope, inside, little, mistake, purple, shape, table, useful

2
	
Vowel Teams /oi/: oi, oy; Inflectional Ending -es (change y to i)
	
Vowel-Consonant-e and Consonant-le Syllables
	
boy, toy, boil, coin, join, enjoy, joyful, point, noise, voice

3

Vowel Teams /ou/: ou, ow

Vowel Teams /oi/: oi, oy
	
out, count, round, now, brown, town, mouth, owl, house, cow

6

1

Vowel Teams /oo/: oo, ui, ew, ue, u, ou, oe

Vowel Teams /ou/: ou, ow

new, truth, grew, shoe, July, blue, too, soon, fruit, true

2
	
Vowel Teams /oo/: oo, ou; Homophones
	
Vowel Teams /oo/: oo, ui, ew, ue, u, ou, oe
	
book, look, cook, foot, stood, good, shook, could, would, should

3

Vowel Teams /ô/: al, aw, au, (w)

Consonant-le Syllables

ball, small, straw, draw, fault, tall, walk, talk, salt, launch

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Benchmark Advance

Grade 2 Phonics Skills and Spelling Words

Unit
	Week
	Phonics
	Spiral Review
	Spelling Words

7
	
1
	
Compound Words; Silent Letters:wr, kn, gn

Closed Syllables
	railroad, moonlight, cowboy, bathroom, toothbrush, birthday, doorknob, seashell, snowball, starfish

2
	
Inflectional Endings with Spelling Changes

Vowel Teams /ô/: al, aw, au, (w)a
	running, hopped, sitting, making, using, taking, liked, raked, smiled, swimming

3

Related Root Words

Open Syllables

add, addition, move, movers, moving, work, worked, forgot, forgotten, forgetful

8

1

Irregular Plural Nouns

r-Controlled Vowel Syllables

feet, teeth, lives, sheep, men, women, shelves, people, fish, children

2
	Words with -er or -or Endings; Homographs;
Possessives

N/A
	farmer, teacher, visitor, actor, sailor, baker, writer, doctor, dancer, inventor

3

Comparatives -er, -est; Contractions: ‘ll, ‘ve, ‘m

Irregular Plural Nouns

faster, fastest, slower, slowest, newer, newest, colder, coldest, taller, tallest

9

1

Words with -y or -ly Endings

Inflectional Endings with Spelling Changes

happy, slowly, lucky, neatly, funny, likely, messy, quickly, rainy, friendly

2

Schwa
	
Irregular Plural Nouns; Comparatives -er, -est
	
above, ago, about, ahead, away, alone, alike, awake, along, again

3

Silent Letters

Schwa
	
sign, know, write, thumb, comb, gnat, knock, knife, wrong, climb

10
	
1

Possessives

Words with -y or-ly Endings
	cat’s, Mom’s, house’s, sun’s, tree’s, boys’, doctors’, dogs’, classes’, children’s

2
	
Prefixes un-, re-, dis-; Abbreviations

Silent Letters
	unsafe, unlock, reheat, reuse, unhappy, unpack, dislike, disagree, reread, distrust

3

Suffixes -ful, -less

Prefixes un-, re-, dis-

careful, useful, helpful, painless, fearless, spotless, colorful, spoonful, speechless, priceless

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