Grade 2 Sight Words

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• Sight words, also called service words or high-frequency words, are words children recognize instantly without sounding them out to help them read more fluidly.
• The Dolch Sight Words list is the most commonly used set of sight words in education, developed by Dr. Edward William Dolch in the 1930s–40s.
• The Dolch list contains 220 service words plus 95 high-frequency nouns, totaling 315 words that comprise 80% of words in typical children’s books.
• Second Grade Dolch sight words consist of exactly 46 words, including always, around, because, been, best, both, buy, call, cold, first, green, read, right, sing, sit, sleep, and write.
• Early 2nd grade sight words include words like four, into, our, thing, both, almost, kind, most, old, their, they, give, anything, only, sky, try, also, and week.
• Mid to late 2nd grade sight words include today, change, year, city, live, right, know, follow, show, move, new, place, over, under, able, which, and people.
• Knowing sight words allows children to focus their attention on decoding the remaining, less frequent words in a text, making reading significantly easier.
• Common second grade sight words found across multiple curricula include after, always, because, before, both, change, different, every, find, great, home, learn, move, and read.
• Sight word lists are typically chosen based on the frequency of words in beginning books and what is developmentally appropriate for the student’s grade level.
• In many classrooms, second grade sight words are displayed alphabetically on walls at a child’s eye level so students can reference and spell them correctly.