Know the letter/sound correspondences, including distinguishing long and short vowel sounds
diphthongs (e.g., oi, oy, ou, ow)
r-controlled vowels (e.g., er, ir, ur, ar, or)
additional common vowel teams (e.g., ei, ie, igh)
regularly spelled one-syllable words
Arizona Academic Standards:
2.RF.3.a
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RF.2.3a
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE2RF3a
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
RF.2.3.a
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
RF.2.3a
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
RF.2.4.a
Tennessee Academic Standards:
2.FL.PWR.3.a
Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
2RF3a
Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words (including common vowel teams).
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
8
Apply knowledge of voiced and unvoiced sounds and manner of articulation to distinguish between commonly-confused
vowel sounds and commonly-confused cognate consonant sounds. Examples: /f/ and /v/, /p/ and /b/, /k/ and /g/, /t/ and /d/, /ch/ and /sh/, /e/ and /i/, /e/, and /a/ Note: This is extremely important as a foundational phonemic awareness skill for all learners.
Arizona Academic Standards:
2.RF.3.b
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RF.2.3b
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE2RF3b
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
RF.2.3.b
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
RF.2.3b
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
RF.2.4.b
Tennessee Academic Standards:
2.FL.PWR.3.b
Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.
New Jersey Student Learning Standards:
RF.2.3.A
Know spelling-sound correspondences for common vowel teams.
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
10
Apply knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences, multisyllabic word construction, and syllable division
principles to decode and encode (spell) words accurately in isolation and in context.
Decode multisyllabic words with common syllable patterns, including open/closed, vowel-r, vowel-consonant-e,
vowel teams, consonant-le, and schwa syllables.
Apply knowledge of multisyllabic word construction and syllable division principles to decode grade-appropriate
multisyllabic words. Examples: VC/CV, V/CV, VC/V, CV/VC; rab-bit, o-pen, cab-in, li-on
Decode and encode words with three-consonant blends and blends containing digraphs.
Decode and encode words with consonant digraphs, trigraphs, and combinations. Examples: qu, sh, ch, th, ph, wh, tch, dge
Decode and encode words with variable vowel teams and vowel diphthongs. Examples: oi, oy; ou, ow; au, aw; oo, ew, ue; ee, ea; igh, ie; ai, ay
Decode and encode words with vowel-r combinations. Examples: ar, air, are, ear, eer, er, ere, eir, ir, or, oar, ore, our, ur
Decode and encode words that follow the -ild, -ost, -old, -olt, and -ind patterns. Examples: wild, most, cold, colt, mind
Decode and encode words with a after w read /ä/ and a before l read /â/. Examples: wash, water, wasp; tall, all, talk, small, fall
Decode and encode words with or after w read /er/. Examples: world, word, worm, worst, work
Decode and encode words with the hard and soft sounds of c and g, in context and in isolation. Examples: c=/k/ before a, o, u, or any consonant and c= /s/ before i, e, or y
g=/g/before a, o, u, or any consonant and g=/j/ before i, e, or y
Decode and encode words with vowel y in the final position of one and two syllable words, distinguishing the
difference between the long /?/ sound in one-syllable words and the long /?/ sound in two-syllable words, and
words with vowel y in medial position, producing the short /?/ sound for these words. Examples: fly, my; baby, happy; myth, gym
Decode words with silent letter combinations. Examples: kn, mb, gh
Decode and encode words with prefixes and suffixes, including words with dropped e and y-to-i changes for suffix
addition. Examples: pro-, trans-, non-, mid-; -ful, -less, -ness, -ed, ing, -es, -er, -est, -en, -y, -ly
Decode and encode grade-appropriate high frequency words that are spelled using predictable, decodable
phoneme-grapheme correspondences, including those that contain only one irregularity. Examples: decodable - number, way, my, than, word decodable except for one irregularity - other (o is schwa), from- (o is schwa) what - (a is schwa or short o depending on dialect)
Decode and encode contractions with am, is, has, not, have, would, and will. Examples: I’m, he’s, she’s, isn’t, don’t, I’ve, he’d, they’ll
Arkansas Academic Standards:
RF.2.3.F
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RF.2.3c
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE2RF3c
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
RF.2.3.c
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
RF.2.3c
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
RF.2.4.c
New Jersey Student Learning Standards:
RF.2.3.B
Tennessee Academic Standards:
2.FL.PWR.3.c
Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.
Arizona Academic Standards:
2.RF.3.c
Identify and apply all six syllable types to decode appropriate grade-level text.
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
2RF3b
Decode short and long vowel sounds in two-syllable words.
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
RF.2.3.c
Decode and encode regularly spelled one, two, and some three syllable CVC pattern words (e.g., 1 syllable: mat, 2 syllable: picnic, 3 syllable: fantastic, etc.).
Arkansas Academic Standards:
RF.2.3.A
Identify words with inconsistent but common letter-sound correspondences (e.g., doll/roll, though/cough/rough,
love/rove, have/save, some/dome, near/bear, soot/loot, were/here, shall/tall, own/town, hour/tour, want/plant).
Arizona Academic Standards:
2.RF.3.e
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RF.2.3e
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE2RF3e
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
RF.2.3.e
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
RF.2.3e
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
RF.2.4.e
New Jersey Student Learning Standards:
RF.2.3.D
Tennessee Academic Standards:
2.FL.PWR.3.e
Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
RF.2.3.e
Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels. Encode some of these words.
Know when to drop the final e when adding an -ing, -ed endings. (Silent-e vowel pattern base word).
Know when to double the final consonant when adding a suffix. -ing, -ed.
Arkansas Academic Standards:
RF.2.3.C
Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
Arizona Academic Standards:
2.RF.3.f
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RF.2.3f
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE2RF4d
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
RF.2.3.f
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
RF.2.3f
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
RF.2.4.f
New Jersey Student Learning Standards:
RF.2.3.E
Tennessee Academic Standards:
2.FL.PWR.3.f
Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
2RF3e
Read all common high-frequency words by sight.
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.1.2.D
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
Decode two-syllable words with long vowels and words with common prefixes and suffixes.
Read grade-level high-frequency sight words and words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.2.F.1.3
Use knowledge of grade-appropriate phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words.
a. Decode words with variable vowel teams (e.g., oo, ea, ou) and vowel diphthongs (e.g.,oi, oy,ow).
b. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long and short vowels.
c. Decode words with open (e.g., hi, baby, moment) and closed (e.g., bag, sunshine,chop) syllables and consonant -le (e.g., purple, circle,stumble).
d. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
e. Decode words with silent letter combinations (e.g.,knight, comb, island,ghost).
2nd Grade Reading - Irregular Words and Phonics Lesson
Irregular words
Irregular words are words that have letters that do not make their usual sounds.
These are some common examples of irregular words.
Letter(s) /Consonants
Sound
Example
Pronunciation
“dge”
j
fudge
fuhj
"f"
v
of
ov
“gh”
f
enough
enuf
“s”
z
because
bih-kawz
Letter(s) /Vowels
Sound
Example
Pronunciation
“i”
i
give
giv
“o”
oh
most
mohst
“ou”
oo
wound
woond
“o”
u
to
too
“o”
uh
come
kuhm
“y”
ee
mystery
mis-tuh-ree
Vowels
Vowels are the letters a, e, i, o, and u. They each make a different sound. Sometimes they make a sound like the name of the letter and sometimes they do not.
When a vowel sounds like its name, it has a long vowel sound.
These are some words with long vowel sounds:
A ate (eyt) E eat (eet) I kite (jkahyt) O oak (ohk) U use (yooz)
When a vowel has a short sound, it is called a short vowel. Words with one vowel in them usually have a short vowel sound.
These are some words with short vowel sounds:
A apple (apuhl) E nest (nest) I wish (wiSH) O off (of) U up (uhp)