spelling Words

All students should know these sight words by the start of second grade. Please practice these words until you know them by heart -in a snap! Here is the list of words you need to know:

after, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, going, had, has, her, him, his, how, just, know, let, live, may, of, old, once, open, over, put, round, some, stop, take, thank, them, then, think, walk, were, when

Click here for some helpful ideas for practicing sight words at home...

Students also can try these activities:

make flash cards (scroll down to second grade there are 5 sheets of flash cards)

read them in a sentence (scroll down to second grade there are 5 sheets of sentences)

rainbow write their words

hide them around the house on sticky notes and play "shout it out" when they find one

time themselves reading them as quickly as possible