CKLA-Aligned Grade 2 Skills Unit 4 Worksheets (Lessons 1–25)

66 full-page activities for CKLA-aligned Grade 2 Skills Unit 4, Lessons 1–25, written to fill the page with real second-grade work: 8 to 12 items on most pages, picture sorts, word-bank sorts, finish-the-sentence pages, put-the-words-in-order pages and stories with three-choice questions plus answers written in sentences. Unit 4 follows its lessons: er, ir and ur (Lessons 1–2), y as in gym and my, i and igh (3–5), changing y to i and adding es (6 and 18), singular and plural nouns (7 and 10), o and ow as in gold and snow (8–11), proper nouns (12–13), to be (14 and 19), long e spelled e, ee, ea and e_e (16), y and ey as in bunny and key (17), and al as in ball (21), plus the unit's spelling words, including your, people and all.

Nearly every word a child reads is decodable through Unit 4, or is a tricky word taught by then, and each spelling is used only after the lesson that teaches it. A few everyday words (each, head, into, many, opposite, pull, put) appear so the sentences and stories sound natural. The stories are original, and every story question asks the child to choose or write: nothing is filled in ahead of time.

How the pages work: word-work pages show exactly one gray worked example, and place-or-write pages let children put a card in a box or simply write the word. No cutting is ever required, and every write-in line is sized for a child's handwriting. Fluency rows ask the child to cross out the one nonsense word in each row, and every page can be done by a child working alone. The one spelling-change rule Unit 4 teaches, changing y to i before adding es, has its own pages; every -ed and -ing word is just add.

Each lesson at a glance:
• Lessons 1–5: er, ir, ur, y as in gym, i and igh
• Lessons 6–10: y to i, plural nouns, o and ow
• Lessons 11–16: proper nouns, to be and long e
• Lessons 17–25: y and ey, al, was and were, synonyms and antonyms, review

You get four PDFs in one purchase: Color, Printer-Friendly (black-and-white pictures, identical text), a separate Answer Key, and separate Teacher Pages with the spelling assessments and dictation, so the student pages need no teacher. All content is original. It follows the scope of the Core Knowledge Foundation's free first-edition Grade 2 Skills sequence, Unit 4. It is not tied to any other edition of the program, and none of its text is copied.

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What's included
• 66 student activity pages: 25 lessons (69 pages per PDF with the cover, teacher information page and closing page)
• Color and Printer-Friendly editions (two PDFs, identical text)
• A separate 17-page answer key
• Separate Teacher Pages: spelling assessments and dictation (5 pages)
• er, ir, ur, long vowel spellings, y to i, plural and proper nouns
• Place-or-write sorts and word-building pages: no cutting required