Skip to Content

Long U Sound Spelling Words

The theme of week 22 of the Grade 2 Spelling Words list is the Long U Sound.

Here are the long U sound spelling words for 2nd grade:

Long U Sound

  1. argue
  2. clue
  3. dew
  4. few
  5. grew
  6. huge
  7. new
  8. sure
  9. tube
  10. value

During this week, the student will learn that the following types of words make the long U sound:

  • ue
  • ew
  • _u_e (silent e at the end of the word)

Review Words

Here are the optional review words, or words previously learned that have the long U sound. You can include them as a review in this weeks spelling if you so wish.

Grade 1 Review Words

Grade 2 Review Words

Colours is next weeks theme in week 23.

Master list of these second grade spelling words where you can download a .pdf of all 36 weeks.