For a list of this week's weekly words please see our Newsletter page.

  Weekly Words Explanation

This year our spelling tests will be done somewhat differently.  Every Monday you will receive our weekly newsletter with the week’s weekly words.  There will be a total of 15 weekly words; 5 word wall words along with 10 words that follow a special spelling pattern. These words will be used each week to complete homework assignments and will be practiced at school during our Word Study block. 

 

On Fridays, we will have our weekly words test.  Our test will include 10 spelling pattern words (5 words from the 10 spelling words given for the week and 5 transfer words).  Transfer words are words that follow the same pattern, but were not assigned for the week.  This type of test will ensure that students are not just “memorizing” words with the spelling pattern, but truly understand and can apply the spelling pattern in their writing. 

 

For example:  If our weekly words were long a words such as bake, take, rake, lake, quake, brake, stake, fake, cake, and make, our spelling test would include 5 of these words plus 5 other words that followed this pattern such as snake, or wake.  By studying the spelling pattern throughout the week students should now be able to apply that pattern to new words in their writing.

 

Our test will also include 10 word wall words.  Five word wall words will be assigned each week for students to study.  Word wall words are high-frequency words that second graders should know fluently by the end of the year.  The 10 word wall words on the spelling test each week will be drawn at random from the words previously assigned throughout the year. This is called “random sampling”.  As you will notice, many of them are words they should be familiar with from first grade.  In second grade, students are expected to spell these words correctly in their writing at all times.  We will graph our results individually in our data notebooks and as a class.  If you have any questions, please let me know!  It is my goal that each child will go to third grade knowing how to spell all of these words!  I know that we will work very hard on this goal! 

Our Word Wall on the Web

Aa about      after       again       are	Bb    beautiful      because      before       best black     boy     brothers      bug
Cc can't     car     caught     children  city clock     could     crash      crashes	Dd didn't     don't     drink
Ee  eating     every	Ff  favorite     first     float     found   friends
Gg girl     green     gym	Hh have     here     house     how     hurt
Ii I     into     it's	Jj  joke     jump     junk
Kk  kicked     knew	Ll line     little
Mm made     mail     make     many  more	Nn  name     new     nice     not
Oo           off     one     or     other     our      outside	Pp  people     phone     played     pretty
Qq quit	Rr rain     really     ride     right
Ss  said     sale     saw   school   shook      sister     sometimes     small    snap      slow     sports     stop     skate	Tt  tell     than    thank     that's     their      them     then     there     two      they     they're     thing     those     to     too      trip     truck
Uu use	Vv  very
Ww wanted    was    went    were   what      when     who     why     will     with      won     won't     write     writing	Xx
Yy	Zz