Spelling Words for Class 2

What are Spelling Words?

Putting letters in the right order to form new meaningful words and also making sure that they are spelt right are called spellings.

For example, beach, dream, flow, enough, leather, scooter, weather and so on.

Vowels and Consonants

Vowels: Vowels are the letters in the alphabet that produce open-mouthed sounds. There are five main vowels in the English language: a, e, i, o, and u.

Examples: an apple, an elephant, an ice cream, an orange and an umbrella

Consonants: Consonants are the letters in the alphabet that are not vowels. They produce closed-mouthed sounds and their sounds are often combined with vowels to form words.

Examples: ball, cat, sun, rain, moon, bag, lion

Benefits of Learning Spelling Words

→ Improves reading comprehension skills
→ Improves vocabulary
→ Helps to make meaningful sentences
→ Encourage and boost confidence

How Phonics Help in Building Spelling Words?

Phonics is a method of teaching students how to read and write by helping them understand the relationship between letters (graphemes) and the sounds (phonemes) they make in words.

1. Letter-Sounds: Phonics teaches students that each letter of the alphabet represents a specific sound or phoneme.

Examples:

→ The letter 'A' makes the "ah" sound, like in "apple".
→ 'B' makes the "buh" sound, like in "balloon".
→ 'C' makes the "ka" sound, like "catch".
→ 'D' makes the "duh" sound, like "dodge".

2. Mixing the Sounds: Students learn how to blend the sounds of individual letters to form words.

Examples:

→ Blend the sounds /r/, /a/, /p/, /i/, /d/ to read the word "rapid".
→ Blend the sounds /b/, /r/, /a/, /k/ to read the word "brake".
→ Blend the sounds /f/ /l/, /a/, /s/, /h/ to read the word "flash".
→ Blend the sounds /m/, /a/, /k/, /e/ to read the word "make".
→ Blend the sounds /l/, /a/, /k/ to read the word "lake".

3. Breaking Words: They also learn to break words into their sounds.

Examples:

→ In the word "road" they can segment it into /r/, /o/, /a/, /d/.
→ In the word "fish" they can segment it into /f/ /i/ /sh/.
→ In the word "sun" → /s/ /u/ /n/

4. Phonics Rules: Some basic phonics rules are:

→ Silent 'e' rule for the word "cake".
→ The 'sh' sound for the word "shoe".
→ The 'th' sound for the word "this".

5. Word Families: Students might be taught about word families, which are groups of words that share a common phonetic pattern.

6. Sight Words: Sight words are words that are frequently used and often cannot be sounded out phonetically.

Examples:

7. Double Consonants: Some words can have two consonants together. Doubling the consonant can change the pronunciation and meaning of the word.

Examples:

→ Letter
→ Rabbit
→ Zoo
→ Book
→ Feet
→ tooth
→ Dinner
→ Happen
→ Butter
→ Better

Examples of Spelling Words