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Children's Writer's Word Book, page 7
fearful
feast
feat
feed
feet
fell
fellow
fence
fib
fifteen
fifth
fifty
fig
file
fin
finance
finding
fine
finger
finish
first
fishing
fix
flake
flew
float
flop
floppy disk
flow
fog
fold
follow
following
football
force
forest
forget
fork
form
forty
fourteen
fourth
France
freckles
French
Friday
friend
front
fry
funny
g
gab
gag
gang
gas
gate
gather
gay
gear
ginger
gingerbread
glass
glasses
gleam
glow
glue
gnaw
gobble
god
goddess
goes
gone
good-bye
gopher
gorilla
government
grandfather
grandmother
grasshopper
gray
grin
ground
group
grown-up
gruff
guard
guess
guide
gulp
gut
guts
guy
gym
h
hadn’t
half
hall
hamster
happen
hard drive
hasn’t
he’d
heat
heaven
heavy
helmet
helper
hem
here’s
hero
hidden
hide
hint
hip
hold
homework
honey
honk
honor
hoof
hoot
hopped
horrible
hour
however
hug
huge
hum
hundred
hurried
hurry
husband
i
icon
I’d
idea
ill
I’ll
illegal
I’m
important
inch
indeed
Indian
inside
instead
interest
into
isn’t
it’s
I’ve
j
jab
jack
January
jay
jeans
jeep
jell
jelly
joke
jot
joy
judge
jug
jumped
just
k
kangaroo
keeper
keg
keyboard
kick
kill
kin
kit
kitchen
kneel
knew
knife
know
known
l
labor
lack
lady
lag
lake
lamp
lass
later
law
lay
lead
leaf
learn
least
leather
leave
left
lens
leopard
letter
lick
lid
lie
life
lift
likely
likes
lily
lip
listen
live
lived
lives
living
lizard
llama
lock
long
longing
looked
looking
loud
loved
lovely
luck
lug
lumber
lunch
m
machine
machinery
magic
mailbox
mailman
maker
mama
mane
map
March
march
Marines
mark
market
marry
marsupial
master
mastodon
matter
May
maybe
mayor
mean
meat
member
men
mend
mess
message
met
might
mike
mile
milk
mill
mind
mine
minus
minute
mist
mistake
mitten
mix
mixed
moment
Monday
monster
month
moon
mop
morning
moss
most
moth
mouth
movie
moving
much
mud
mug
muss
must
myself
mystery
n
nab
nag
napping
NASA
nation
native
nature
Navy
near
nearing
nearly
necessary
neck
need
neither
nervous
nest
newspaper
nice
nickel
night
nineteen
ninety
nip
nobody
nod
noise
none
north
nose
note
nothing
notice
November
nun
nuzzle
o
oak
oar
oat
object
ocean
October
octopus
office
officer
often
okay
older
once
onto
order
ostrich
other
otter
ought
outside
oval
oven
oversee
p
pack
paddle
pair
palace
panic
pants
papa
park
parrot
part
partridge
past
paste
path
patrol
paw
paying
payment
pea
peach
peacock
peck
peer
peg
pelican
pen
pencil
penguin
penny
perhaps
person
pest
pet
pick
pickle
piece
pigeon
pile
pill
pine
pink
pipe
pipeline
pit
place
plan
plane
player
playground
plenty
plop
pluck
plus
pod
point
poke
police
policeman
policewoman
pond
pool
popcorn
possible
post
postcard
pouch
power
practice
prepare
president
press
pretty
prince
princess
problem
promise
pub
public
Puritan
purpose
push
push-up
q
quail
Quaker
quarter
question
quick
quicksand
quit
quite
r
raccoon
race
rack
radish
rag
rain
raise
rake
ranger
rap
rate
rather
rattlesnake
raw
ray
reach
ready
real
reason
receive
rectangle
recycle
reins
remain
remember
reply
report
require
rest
return
rib
rice
rid
riddle
rig
rim
ring
ripe
ripen
rise
roadbed
roar
rod
roll
roof
rooster
rope
rose
rot
rotorcraft
rub
rubber
rug
rum
running
rut
s
sack
sadness
sag
sail
sale
salt
sand
sap
Saturday
save
sawmill
scare
scarecrow
scared
scene
schoolwork
score
scout
scream
screech
search
seat
second
secret
seed
seek
seem
seesaw
Senate
senate
sense
sentence
September
serve
service
seventeen
seventy
several
shake
shall
shape
shark
sharp
shave
sheet
shell
shine
ship
shirt
shiver
shock
shop
shore
short
shortly
shot
should
shouldn’t
shout
shovel
show
shut
sidewalk
sight
sign
silly
silver
simple
sin
since
sing
sip
sir
sister
sitting
sit-up
sixteen
sixth
sixty
size
skate
skin
skinny
slate
slow
smart
smart house
smile
smoke
snail
snake
sob
soccer
social
sock
socks
somebody
someday
someone
something
sometimes
somewhere
sort
sound
soup
south
space
speak
spell
spill
spin
splash
spoke
spoon
sport
spot
squirrel
stag
stake
starfish
start
state
station
stay
step
still
stock
stoplight
stove
strange
stream
street
strength
string
stripe
stroke
struggle
study
stuff
stutter
subject
subtract
such
suck
sudden
sugar
suit
suitcase
sum
Sunday
sunny
sunset
super
supply
surprise
swallow
sweets
swing
t
tack
tail
taken
tape
taste
taxi
tea
teach
teacher
team
tee
teeth
telling
tent
terrible
that’s
themselves
there
therefore
they’ll
they’re
thin
think
third
thirteen
thirty
those
though
thought
thousand
threw
throat
through
throw
Thursday
thus
tick
ticket
tickets
tide
tie
tight
tile
till
time
tin
tip
together
tomorrow
ton
tonight
too
took
tool
toot
tooth
touch
touching
tow
toward
track
trade
trained
trap
travel
tray
triangle
trick
trip
troll
trouble
troublemaker
truck
trust
truth
tub
tuck
Tuesday
tug
tune
turn
twelve
twenty
twist
type
u
umpire
uncertain
uncle
understand
unfit
unhappy
uniform
unreal
until
unzip
uphill
upon
uptown
v
vertical
vet
view
visit
voice
w
wag
wake
walked
walking
walnut
walrus
wanted
war
warm
wash
wasn’t
waste
watch
wee
wear
weather
wedding
Wednesday
weed
weigh
weight
weird
welcome
we’ll
we’re
west
whale
whatever
wheat
wheel
where
whether
which
while
whisper
whoever
whole
wick
wide
wife
wig
wind
window
wine
wing
wipe
wise
wit
within
without
wonder
wonderful
won’t
wood
worked
worker
workman
world
worry
worse
would
wouldn’t
writer
wrong
y
yam
yeah
year
yet
yip
you’ll
young
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SECOND GRADE
In the second and third grades, the smallest number of new words are added to a new reader’s vocabulary. The two grades together add the average number in each of the other grades. One change from the earlier edition of the book is the addition of the proper names of the most common dinosaurs. Previously, even though dinosaurs were very popular with even the youngest child, proper names were not used in graded literature until fifth grade. That is still true of the most unusual types, but the most common, such as Stegosaurus or Triceratops, are now introduced here. Additionally, children are introduced to science, particularly biology and ecology. Still, overall, this is a time to confirm skills and allow those who were not as ready to catch up.
Social Changes. One of the major changes common at this age is that most children have become less self-oriented than they were in kindergarten and even first grade. As a result, they have stopped generalizing characters, and individual personalities have become important in stories.
In the Classroom. A beginning study of the solar system is often part of the second-grade curriculum. The continents and the cardinal directions, north, south, east, and west, are generally taught in school, and there is usually some work with the world map.
Schools introduce their home state, other major states, and a few foreign countries by this level. These countries include major powers and nations that are near neighbors of the United States both physically and culturally. The best known states, such as New York, California, Florida, and Texas, are familiar to the second grader as he learns about the continental United States. More explanation or description may be needed in introducing difficult names or lesser known states. Canada and Mexico, which border the United States, and England, France, and Germany are introduced at this level. Nations currently in the news are often familiar to the second grader also.
