Building Spelling Skills 2 (Teacher’s Guide)

In Building Spelling Skills, Grade 2 , students will learn 10 spelling words per week (300 total). Two sentences for dictation are provided for each list.

Spelling lists include the following:

short and long vowel words
contractions
blends and digraphs
spellings for /er/
variant vowel sounds such as ow, ou, oo
adding ed and ing
The practice pages include the following:

the spelling list with spaces to read, write, and spell each word
a configuration puzzle for every list
word sorting
word meaning (filling in missing spelling words in sentences)
exercises to find the misspellings
various word study exercises