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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 14
This week, students will learn about compound words. You can get the weekly phonics routine at Teachers Pay Teachers. One of the most...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 13
This week, students will learn how to spell the /ow/ sound. The letters ou make the /ow/ sound in the middle of a syllable. The letters...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 12
This week, students will learn how to spell the long /e/ sound using the ee and ea vowel teams. There is no general rule for when to use...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 11
This week, students will learn how to spell the long /a/ sound using the ai and ay vowel teams. A general rule is that we use the ai...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 10
This week, students will review spelling patterns they have been learning over the last nine weeks. You can get the weekly phonics...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 9
This week, students will learn about the soft and hard g. The letter g can make two sounds. When the letter g comes before a consonant,...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 8
This week, students will learn about the soft and hard c. The letter c can make two sounds. When the letter c comes before a consonant,...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 7
This week, students will learn about the sounds the letter y makes at the end of a word. At the end of a one-syllable word, the letter y...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 6
This week, students will learn about consonant + le syllables. You can get the weekly phonics routine at Teachers Pay Teachers. One of...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 5
This week, students will learn about vce syllables. They will also learn about the two different sounds the letter s can make in plural...
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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 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 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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