CKLA-Aligned Grade 2 Skills Unit 6 Worksheets (Lessons 1–36)

74 full-page activities for CKLA-aligned Grade 2 Skills Unit 6, Lessons 1–36, 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 6 is built around The War of 1812 and follows its lessons: ph as /f/ (Lessons 1–2), ea as in bread (3–4), the history words Great Britain, Europe, native, Americans, signature and war (5), ar and or as /er/ (6 and 8), adverbs (7–9), complete and run-on sentences (10 and 12), ch as /k/ (11), tricky i (13–16), the schwa (19), a after w as in want and wash (25–28), and ABC order to the second letter, plus the tricky words imagine, soldier, Washington, iron, special, shoe, early, whose, broad, bomb, Andrew and new.

Nearly every word a child reads is decodable through Unit 6, or is a tricky word taught by then, and each spelling is used only after the lesson that teaches it. A few everyday words (hair, many, put, shiny) appear so the sentences and stories sound natural. The stories are original, factual and written for second graders, 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. Unit 6 teaches no spelling-change rule, so the adverb page is Just Add ly.

Each lesson at a glance:
• Lessons 1–5: ph, ea and the history words
• Lessons 6–12: ar and or, adverbs, complete and run-on sentences, ch
• Lessons 13–24: tricky i, building sentences, the schwa, Fort McHenry and the anthem
• Lessons 25–36: a after w, ABC order, review and a unit wrap-up

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 6. 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
• 74 student activity pages: 36 lessons (77 pages per PDF with the cover, teacher information page and closing page)
• Color and Printer-Friendly editions (two PDFs, identical text)
• A separate 19-page answer key
• Separate Teacher Pages: spelling assessments (6 pages)
• ph, ea, ar/or, ch, adverbs and sentence work built on The War of 1812
• Place-or-write sorts and word-building pages: no cutting required