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R Controlled Vowels Spelling Words

The theme of week 2 of the Grade 2 Spelling Words list is: ER, IR & OR R-Controlled Vowel sound.

There’s a printable word search to go along with this week.

Spelling Words of the Week

These are the spelling words for this week:

  1. birth
  2. born
  3. corn
  4. form
  5. over
  6. short
  7. sir
  8. under
  9. very
  10. world

Review Words

Here are the optional review words, or words previously learned, that you can include as a review in this weeks spelling as you see fit.

Grade 1 Review Words

  • her – (Week 7)
  • water – (Week 22)
  • other – (Week 22)
  • or – (Week 11)
  • for – (Week 11)
  • more – (Week 11)
  • words – (Week 12)

Grade 2 Review Words

  • answer – (Week 1)
  • work – (Week 1)

Future Grade 2 Words

If you want some additional ER, IR or OR words to work with, here are 2nd grade spelling words that will be learned in a future week:

ER Words
  • after
  • cider
  • father
  • mother
  • brother
  • sister
  • butter
  • letter
  • tower
  • ever
  • weather
  • beaver
  • farmer
  • summer
IR Words
  • circus
  • girl
  • birds
OR Words
  • before
  • core
  • worm
  • color
  • store
  • door
  • report

ER, IR & OR Activity

Here’s a fun 2nd grade spelling activity to go along with the spelling words of the week. It’s a free printable R controlled word search puzzle. It includes all the spelling words of the week along with some other ER, IR and OR bossy R words.

Upcoming Weeks

If you’re looking for more 2nd grade R controlled vowels spelling words, week 16 has spelling words for AR & UR.

Next week’s spelling list (week 3) has “Long E Sound” words.

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