The way Second Grade (here at Peters Colony) does spelling is rather unique. It is very individualized and allows the student to study words 'on their level' for the week. It allows for challenge as well as remediation.

On Monday, each student will take a pretest on ten basic words from the Spelling Unit. If s/he misses any of those words, they will study them for the week and be on their 'Hunters Words List'. For the words that were correct on the pretest, the class chooses Hunters Words that still follow the rule/skill as the basic words. The student chooses words off this list to fill in on their list, so as to keep a total of ten words (basic & Hunters, all basic if all were missed, or all Hunters if all basics were correct).

On Friday, I will give dictation sentences to the entire class as part of their test. The sentences will be based on the basic words. Then, each student will get with their spelling partner to give each other their individualized list test.

The process is quite tedious in the beginning of the year, but then it becomes routine and flows nicely.

Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Unit 9
Unit 10
Unit 11
Unit 12
Unit 13
Unit 14
Unit 15
Unit 16
Unit 17
Unit 18
Unit 19
Unit 20
Unit 21
Unit 22
Unit 23
Unit 24
Unit 25
Unit 26
Unit 27
Unit 28
Unit 29
Unit 30
Unit 31
Unit 32
Unit 33
Unit 34
Unit 35
Unit 36 		short a
short e
short i
short o
short u
review of Units 1-5
long a/i
long o/u
blends
k/ck
double consonant
review of Units 7-11
ay/ai
ee/ea
short o with aw/a
sh/ch
th/wh
review of Units 11-17
nk/ng
plurals
long o with oa/o/ow
oo
homophones
review of Units 19-23
long i with y
long e with y
ou/ow
compound words
contractions
review of Units 25-29
ar
or
ending in er
ed/ing
ed/ing
review of Units 31-35