Second Grade Phonics Scope and Sequence
High Frequency Words are taught explicitly throughout the second grade year and embedded
appropriately.
(Begin with the Zeno Word Lists; then add additional words from Fry Word & Phases Lists)
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Irregular Word Study is embedded throughout the second grade year; they are the words that do
not follow the CVC, final e, vowel teams, r‐ controlled, or “y” as a vowel patterns, and should be
explicitly taught.
Phonics
• One‐ syllable words with long and short
vowels
• Vowel Teams
• Read and write one‐ syllable long and short
vowel words
• Identify, read, and write words with vowel
teams
• Identify, read and write the underlined vowel
teams which are diphthongs
(ai, ay, au, aw ea, ee, ey, ei, ew, oa, ow, oi,
oy, ou, oo, ie, ui)
• Two‐ syllable words with blends and long
vowels
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 Identify and read words with inflectional
endings (s, es, d, ed, ing, est, er)
 Combine, divide, and read compound words
(e.g., playhouse, sunshine, doghouse,
snowman, butterfly)
 Decode and read words with r-controlled
vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur)
• Prefixes
(not meanings)
• Suffixes
(not meanings)
• Syllable Types and Two‐ Syllable words
Identify, read, and write
S‐ blend cluster (sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, scr,
str, spr, spl)
L‐ blend cluster (bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl)
R‐ blend cluster (br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr)
Other‐ blend clusters (tw, thr, qu, squ, dge, tch,
nd, nt, mp,
ng, nk)
• Decode, read, and write words with prefixes
o re‐ , un‐ , dis‐ , mis‐ , pre‐ , ex‐ , non‐ ,
in‐ , im‐ , fore‐ ,uni‐ , bi‐ , tri‐
• Decode, read, and write words with suffixes
o ‐ y, ‐ ly, ‐ ily, ‐ ness, ‐ ful, ‐ less, ‐ ture,
‐ sure, ‐ able, ‐ ible, ‐ ment, ‐
hood
• Use syllable types to divide two syllable words:
• Inconsistent, but common spelling/sound
correspondence
(same sound but different spelling pattern, e.g.
know/no,
kite/light, sleigh/hay, phone/fork))
• Closed Syllables – has one vowel (with short
vowel sound), and
ends in one consonant (s)
• Open Syllables – has one vowel; vowel is at the
end of the
syllable; vowel usually has the long vowel sound)
• Silent e – has a vowel consonant [e] pattern, with a
long vowel
sound
• Vowel Teams –two vowels together that make one
vowel sound
• [r] Controlled – single vowel followed by the letter
(r) and has
neither the long nor the short vowel sound, but has
it’s own
unique sound
• Consonant [le] –this pattern occurs as an
unaccented final
syllable
• Decode, read, and spell words with:
o ph‐ , wr‐ , kn‐ , ‐ gh, –igh, ‐ ight, ‐ eigh,
‐ ough, ‐ ought