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Grade 2 English Language Arts · Level 1, Decode, spell, and read Grade 2 text with increasing automaticity and self-correction.

Read Tricky Spellings

Recognize and read words with common but inconsistent spelling-sound correspondences and grade-appropriate irregular spellings.

How the lesson starts: Read Tricky Spellings

1. The Tricky Word Circus

   Meet Lulu the llama. She runs a word circus! Her word acrobats do silly flips. They don't follow the usual sound rules. So we learn them by heart.

2. Sound-alike acrobats

   Some tricky words sound like other words. Wood and would sound the same! Wood comes from a tree. Would helps you ask. And wud is not a word at all.

3. Pick the right spelling

   Lulu writes a sign. I, blank, like a big cookie. Wood is a real word, but it comes from a tree. Wud is not a word. Would helps say what you want. Would is right!