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Spectrum Spelling Grade 2 essentially begins where the Grade 1 book leaves off. The Grade 2 workbook gives children even more practice with difficult vowel sounds and other phonetic combinations, while also improving composition skills through various writing exercises.

What I particularly like about Grade 2 is the section called “Words Across the Curriculum”, which introduces kids to words from different school subjects. For instance, there are math words such as “cube”, “length”, and “circle”, social studies words such as “town”, “found”, and “crown”, and science words such as “shore”, “sea”, and “shadow”. Learning words from different curriculum areas is an important skill, so I’m glad that it’s emphasized here.

My son is slowly working his way through this book after finishing the first grade book rather quickly. Based on the results so far, I’m definitely going to buy Grade 3 in the series as well!