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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 4

This week, students will learn about open syllables. An open syllable ends in one vowel, and the vowel makes its long sound. You can get...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 3

This week, students will learn about the cat-kite rule. They will learn that both the letter c and the letter k can make the /k/ sound....

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 1

This week, students will review closed-syllable words from first grade. Blends and digraphs are included. You can get the weekly phonics...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 36

This is a review week for phonics. These activity mostly review silent letters and the letter a making the short /o/ sound. You can get...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 35

This week, students will learn about silent letters. Specifically, they will learn about the silent g and silent k at the beginning of...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 34

This week, students will learn about ways the letter a can make the short /o/ sound. When a comes after w or qu, it can make the short...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 33

This week, students will learn about using the letters ea to make both the short /e/ sound and the long /e/ sound. You can get the weekly...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 32

This week, students will learn about using the letters tion and sion to make the /shun/ sound. The letters sion can also make the /zhun/...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 31

This week, students will learn about using the letters oo to spell both the long /oo/ sound and the short /oo/ sound. Please note that...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 30

This week, students will learn about spelling the /aw/ sound with the letters aw and au. The /aw/ sound is very similar to the short /o/...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 29

This week, students will learn about spelling multisyllabic words with r-controlled and consonant + le syllables. You can get the weekly...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 27

This week, students will review phonics patterns they have learned over the past 26 weeks. As a result, we will not follow the usual...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 28

This week, students will learn about spelling the long /oo/ sound with the letters oo and ew. Note that the long /u/ sound can also be...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 26

This week, students will learn about spelling the /er/ sound with the letters ir and the /or/ sound with the letters oar. You can get the...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 25

This week, students will learn about the spelling of the /ch/ sound. After a short vowel, we spell the /ch/ sound with the letters tch....

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 24

This week, students will learn about the ur spelling of the /er/ sound and the ore spelling of the /or/ sound. You can get the weekly...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 23

This week, students will review phonics patterns they have learned over the past 22 weeks. As a result, we will not follow the usual...

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The Prefix DIS-: A FREE Morphology Lesson

Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use the...

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The Prefix RE-: A FREE Morphology Lesson

Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use the...

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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 22

This week, students will review phonics patterns they have learned over the past 21 weeks. As a result, we will not follow the usual...

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