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Sound Trail: Grade 2 Phonics

12 weeks of second grade phonics: vowel teams, soft c and g, syllables, prefixes and suffixes.

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Sound Trail: Grade 2 Phonics course cover
Grade
Grade 2
Length
12 weeks
Pace
6 short lessons a week, about 15 minutes each
Price
Free, every week

About this course

Sound Trail Grade 2 picks up where Grade 1 ends. Each week adds one set of patterns in order, from oo, ou and oi to soft c and g, silent letters, syllables, prefixes, suffixes and contractions, and every Read it yourself line uses only patterns and heart words already taught. Longer stories build smooth, expressive reading. Every line is read aloud and every week is free.

Kids will

  • Tell long and short vowels apart in one-syllable words
  • Read words with oo, ew, ue, ou, oi, oy, aw and au
  • Read soft c and g words and words with silent letters like kn and wr
  • Split two-syllable words and read consonant-le words like table
  • Read words with prefixes and suffixes like un-, re-, -ful and -less
  • Read longer stories smoothly and know Grade 2 heart words by sight

The 12 weeks

  1. Week 1

    Vowel Ridge

    Short and long vowels in one-syllable words

  2. Week 2

    Moon Grove

    oo, ew, ue, ie and oe

  3. Week 3

    Cloud Hill

    ou, ow, oi and oy

  4. Week 4

    Hawk Hill

    aw, au, all and al: the vowel sound in saw

  5. Week 5

    Stairs and Cheers

    More bossy r teams: air, are, ear, eer, ore and oar

  6. Week 6

    Bruce's Bridge Race

    Soft c, soft g and dge

  7. Week 7

    Silent Letter Cave

    kn, wr, gn, mb and ph

  8. Week 8

    Two-Part Words

    Closed and open syllables

  9. Week 9

    The le Ladder

    Consonant-le syllables

  10. Week 10

    Word Tails

    Suffixes: -er, -est, -ful, -less, -ly, -ness and -y

  11. Week 11

    Word Fronts

    Prefixes un-, re-, pre- and dis-, compound words and contractions

  12. Week 12

    Top of the Word Tree

    ind, ild, old and olt, and a year of word parts

More in Sound Trail

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