The Letter A Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
The Baby Shark Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
The Alphabet Songs Collection - Classic will help your kids gain a better understanding of letter names and sounds by listening to these ABC Songs.
The Alphabet Songs Pack - Animated will help support your visual learners gain a better understanding of letter names and sounds by listening to this song.
A soccer vowel teams game where second grade kids kick the ball at words with ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, ow, ie and igh, like rain, bee, boat and pie. Play online on any phone, tablet, Chromebook or computer.
The Letter B Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter H Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter G Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
This Hard and Soft G Worksheet helps 2nd graders sort words by the hard g and soft g sound and mark which sound the letter g makes. Includes an answer key for quick, no-prep phonics practice.
The Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video) will help students learn letter names and sounds by listening to the catchy lyrics and colorful video.
The Letter J Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter M Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter E Song teaches the short E and long E sounds, uppercase and lowercase letter e, vocabulary words with e, and letter E handwriting practice.
The Letter D Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter I Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter F Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter K Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
The Letter C Song (Original Music Video) will help students learn all about the letter by watching a video about letter sounds, vocabulary words, and letter formation.
This consonant digraphs worksheet gives 2nd graders hands-on practice spelling sh, ch, th, and wh words in fun sentences. An answer key is included, making it perfect for quick, no-prep phonics practice at home or school.
Vowel teams, tricky sounds, big words
Second grade phonics is all about the tricky stuff. Kids already read short-vowel words, so now they tackle vowel teams like ai, ee, oa and igh, where two letters work together: r + ai + n = rain. They learn that one letter can make two sounds, like the hard and soft g in gum and gem, and they meet diphthongs like oi, oy, ou and ow. They also start breaking longer words into syllables and reading common prefixes and suffixes. The "aha" moment is when a child reads a brand-new two-syllable word without any help!
Second graders need lots of practice with patterns that don't follow the simple rules. These moves help.
Introduce one team, like "ai," then read five words, write five words and play one quick round. Add a new team only when kids read the old one without stopping. A fast vowel team game at the end keeps everyone eager for the next one.
Why it works: the National Reading Panel found that systematic, explicit phonics teaching clearly improves how children learn to read.
Try it withVowel Teams GameGamesOpen it →Give kids word cards with g and let them sort by sound: hard g goes in the "goat" pile, soft g in the "giraffe" pile. Then ask what they notice. Most kids discover the e, i, y rule themselves, and that discovery sticks much better than a rule you tell them.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withHard G and Soft G WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Once kids know a few vowel patterns, give them practice that mixes them all together. Deciding whether a word uses CVCe, a vowel team or a short vowel is exactly what reading asks them to do.
Why it works: mixing different kinds of problems in one practice set helped students do far better on a later test (Rohrer and Taylor, 2007).
Try it withLong Vowels Mini PackWorkbooksOpen it →Tricky sounds become a lot less tricky when kids are laughing.
WorksheetsKids shout "ouch!" for ou words and "wow!" for ow words as you read a list. Loud and memorable!
Open OU OW Digraphs Worksheet →
WorksheetsRead oi and oy words in a silly voice, then sort them: oi lives in the middle, oy loves the end.
Open OI OY Digraphs Worksheet →
WorksheetsHunt a page for the different sounds one vowel can make and sort them into case files.
Open Different Vowel Sounds Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Letter A Song (Original Music Video), Alphabet Song (Original Music Video) and Baby Shark Alphabet Song (Animated Music Video).
Second graders learn vowel teams (ai, ee, oa), diphthongs (oi, oy, ou, ow), r-controlled vowels, hard and soft c and g, and reading words with two syllables. They also read common prefixes and suffixes.
A vowel team is two or more letters that work together to make one vowel sound, like "ea" in "beach" or "igh" in "night." A favorite saying is "when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking," though it has plenty of exceptions.
Check the basics first: short vowels, blends and digraphs. Many 2nd grade struggles come from gaps in those early skills. Practice a few minutes every day with words that use one pattern at a time.
Teach them to find the vowels first, then split the word into chunks, one vowel sound per chunk. "Rabbit" becomes "rab-bit." Reading each chunk and then blending them together turns a scary word into two easy ones.
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