Study Words for Second Grade | 2016-2017
ivy
nose
tusk
awake
bird
snack
beehive
shopping
artwork
untidy
curved
leaky
pebbles
married
chamber
road
wear
chance
interact
flicker
oven
mane
lookout
sturdy
onion
news
hardly
stroller
chatter
arcade
food
shirts
anyone
bakery
London
rules
moody
thumb
darkest
pounce
braid
lawn
backdrop
feast
shrill
miles
branch
fuddy-duddy
dollars
mayor
folds
pantry
paint
might
farewell
pages
sandbox
soul
subject
young
boring
posters
banana
dishes
supplies
corner
spider
frown
partly
beginning
ferns
coast
temper
forward
vacation
elbow
bother
burst
strange
skateboard
taxi
mouse
hungry
hitched
poem
stuck
swift
riddle
rather
snoozing
grain
restless
porch
puzzles
lotion
float
parents
silver
sign
prevented
This list includes 50 challenging second grade words and, to extend learning, 50 challenging third grade words. If you learn the spellings and meanings of these 100 words, you will be well prepared for a second grade classroom bee. If you would like to be well prepared for a school spelling bee, ask your teacher for the 450-word School Spelling Bee Study List.
Second Grade Source Books (the first 50 words may be found in these books):
• The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
• Ivy and Bean (Book 1) by Annie Barrows
• A to Z Mysteries: The Absent Author by Ron Roy
• The Titanic: Lost and Found (Step into Reading) by Judy Donnelly
• My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Third Grade Source Books (the last 50 words may be found in these books):
• Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse by Tamera Will Wissinger
• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
• The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
• Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst
• Who Was Isaac Newton? by Janet B. Pascal
• Mr. Popper’s Penguin’s by Richard Atwater