This is the list of Second Grade Core Words that your child is expected to read and write correctly by the end of the year. Please study these words at home.
| about | eat | last | second |
| also | end | leave | should |
| always | enough | light | small |
| another | every | live | some |
| any | family | long | start |
| around | father | many | than |
| ask | find | mean | these |
| away | first | men | think |
| back | found | might | thought |
| because | friend | more | through |
| been | gave | morning | together |
| before | goes | mother | under |
| better | grow | name | upon |
| both | help | near | use |
| bring | high | never | very |
| came | hold | next | where |
| children | home | nice | while |
| color | house | once | white |
| could | if | only | who |
| dear | it's | other | why |
| didn't | just | people | would |
| does | keep | please | write |
| don't | kind | right | year |
| done | know | said | yet |
| each | large | school | young |