Benchmark Advance
Grade 2 High-Frequency Words Cross-Referenced with Dolch, Fry, and Clay*

Unit | Week | HFW | Dolch | Fry | Clay
1 | 1 | a | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
can | 🏱 | 🏱 |
and | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
come | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
are | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
for | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
big | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
go | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
has | 🏱 | 🏱 |
I | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
2 | have | 🏱 | 🏱 |
is | 🏱 | 🏱 |
jump | 🏱 | |
my | 🏱 | 🏱 |
one | 🏱 | 🏱 |
put | 🏱 | 🏱 |
the | 🏱 | 🏱 |
want | 🏱 | 🏱 |
what | 🏱 | 🏱 |
you | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
3 | he | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
like | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
little | 🏱 | 🏱 |
no | 🏱 | 🏱 |
of | 🏱 | 🏱 |
saw | 🏱 | 🏱 |
this | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
to | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
we | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
with | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱

* All high-frequency words in Grade 2 are taught in the explicit high-frequency word instruction within the Teacher’s Resource System. Units 1–4 consist of review words first practiced in Grade K and Grade 1.

Unit | Week | HFW | Dolch | Fry | Clay
2 | 1 | about | 🏱 | 🏱 |
because | 🏱 | 🏱 |
here | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
look | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
me | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
play | 🏱 | 🏱 |
said | 🏱 | 🏱 |
see | 🏱 | 🏱 |
she | 🏱 | 🏱 |
try | 🏱 | 🏱 |
2 | after | 🏱 | 🏱 |
before | 🏱 | 🏱 |
call | 🏱 | 🏱 |
do | 🏱 | 🏱 |
earth | | 🏱 |
father | | 🏱 | 🏱
give | 🏱 | 🏱 |
her | 🏱 | 🏱 |
know | 🏱 | 🏱 |
large | | 🏱 |
3 | good | 🏱 | 🏱 |
many | 🏱 | 🏱 |
near | | 🏱 |
off | 🏱 | 🏱 |
people | | 🏱 |
right | 🏱 | 🏱 |
that | 🏱 | 🏱 |
two | 🏱 | 🏱 |
under | 🏱 | 🏱 |
very | 🏱 | 🏱 |

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Benchmark Advance
Grade 2 High-Frequency Words Cross-Referenced with Dolch, Fry, and Clay*

Unit | Week | HFW | Dolch | Fry | Clay
3 | 1 | again | 🏱 | 🏱 |
below | | 🏱 |
carry | 🏱 | 🏱 |
does | 🏱 | 🏱 |
eight | 🏱 | 🏱 |
find | 🏱 | 🏱 |
house | | 🏱 |
laugh | 🏱 | |
mother | | 🏱 | 🏱
school | | 🏱 | 🏱
2 | move | | 🏱 |
never | 🏱 | 🏱 |
once | 🏱 | 🏱 |
round | 🏱 | 🏱 |
small | 🏱 | 🏱 |
their | 🏱 | 🏱 |
too | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
walk | 🏱 | 🏱 |
where | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
year | | 🏱 |
3 | all | 🏱 | 🏱 |
away | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
better | 🏱 | 🏱 |
by | 🏱 | 🏱 |
change | | 🏱 |
done | 🏱 | 🏱 |
even | | 🏱 |
found | 🏱 | 🏱 |
learn | | 🏱 |
only | 🏱 | 🏱 |

* All high-frequency words in Grade 2 are taught in the explicit high-frequency word instruction within the Teacher’s Resource System. Units 1–4 consist of review words first practiced in Grade K and Grade 1.

Unit | Week | HFW | Dolch | Fry | Clay
4 | 1 | long | 🏱 | 🏱 |
now | 🏱 | 🏱 |
our | 🏱 | 🏱 |
some | 🏱 | 🏱 |
them | 🏱 | 🏱 |
through | | 🏱 |
upon | 🏱 | 🏱 |
was | 🏱 | 🏱 |
when | 🏱 | 🏱 |
work | | 🏱 |
2 | always | 🏱 | 🏱 |
any | 🏱 | 🏱 |
blue | 🏱 | 🏱 |
buy | 🏱 | 🏱 |
city | | 🏱 |
draw | 🏱 | 🏱 |
four | 🏱 | 🏱 |
great | | 🏱 |
how | 🏱 | 🏱 |
live | 🏱 | 🏱 |
3 | another | | 🏱 |
boy | | 🏱 | 🏱
could | 🏱 | 🏱 |
every | 🏱 | 🏱 |
far | 🏱 | 🏱 |
from | 🏱 | 🏱 |
hurt | 🏱 | |
over | 🏱 | 🏱 |
out | 🏱 | 🏱 |
these | 🏱 | 🏱 |

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Benchmark Advance
Grade 2 High-Frequency Words Cross-Referenced with Dolch, Fry, and Clay*

Unit | Week | HFW | Dolch | Fry | Clay
5 | 1 | answer | | 🏱 |
brown | 🏱 | 🏱 |
country | | 🏱 |
start | 🏱 | 🏱 |
then | 🏱 | 🏱 |
there | 🏱 | 🏱 |
wash | 🏱 | 🏱 |
went | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
who | 🏱 | 🏱 |
your | | 🏱 |
2 | above | | 🏱 |
began | | 🏱 |
different | | 🏱 |
enough | | 🏱 |
few | | 🏱 |
grow | 🏱 | 🏱 |
they | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
were | 🏱 | 🏱 |
which | 🏱 | 🏱 |
why | 🏱 | 🏱 |
3 | follow | | 🏱 |
girl | 🏱 | 🏱 |
head | 🏱 | 🏱 |
idea | | 🏱 |
kind | 🏱 | 🏱 |
leave | | 🏱 |
might | | 🏱 |
next | | 🏱 |
often | | 🏱 |
paper | 🏱 | 🏱 |

* All high-frequency words in Grade 2 are taught in the explicit high-frequency word instruction within the Teacher’s Resource System. Units 1–4 consist of review words first practiced in Grade K and Grade 1.

Unit | Week | HFW | Dolch | Fry | Clay
6 | 1 | point | | 🏱 |
river | | 🏱 |
second | | 🏱 |
song | 🏱 | 🏱 |
think | 🏱 | 🏱 |
three | 🏱 | 🏱 |
until | | 🏱 |
watch | 🏱 | 🏱 |
white | 🏱 | 🏱 |
young | | 🏱 |
2 | add | | 🏱 |
between | | 🏱 |
close | | 🏱 |
example | | 🏱 |
food | | 🏱 |
group | | 🏱 |
hear | | 🏱 |
home | 🏱 | 🏱 |
left | | 🏱 |
mountain | | 🏱 |
3 | music | | 🏱 |
night | 🏱 | 🏱 |
old | 🏱 | 🏱 |
picture | 🏱 | 🏱 |
sentence | | 🏱 |
spell | | 🏱 |
thought | | 🏱 |
together | 🏱 | 🏱 |
while | | 🏱 |
world | | 🏱 |

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Benchmark Advance
Grade 2 High-Frequency Words Cross-Referenced with Dolch, Fry, and Clay*

Unit | Week | HFW | Dolch | Fry | Clay
7 | 1 | air | | 🏱 |
along | | 🏱 |
begin | | 🏱 |
children | 🏱 | 🏱 | 🏱
important | | 🏱 |
letter | 🏱 | 🏱 |
open | 🏱 | 🏱 |
own | 🏱 | 🏱 |
sound | | 🏱 |
talk | | 🏱 |
2 | almost | | 🏱 |
animal | | 🏱 |
around | 🏱 | 🏱 |
body | | 🏱 |
color | | 🏱 |
eye | 🏱 | 🏱 |
form | | 🏱 |
high | | 🏱 |
light | 🏱 | 🏱 |
story | | 🏱 |
3 | across | | 🏱 |
become | | 🏱 |
complete | | 🏱 |
during | | 🏱 |
happened | | 🏱 |
hundred | | 🏱 |
problem | | 🏱 |
toward | | 🏱 |
study | | 🏱 |
wind | 🏱 | 🏱 |

* All high-frequency words in Grade 2 are taught in the explicit high-frequency word instruction within the Teacher’s Resource System. Units 1–4 consist of review words first practiced in Grade K and Grade 1.

Unit | Week | HFW | Dolch | Fry | Clay
8 | 1 | against | | 🏱 |
certain | | 🏱 |
door | 🏱 | 🏱 |
early | | 🏱 |
field | | 🏱 |
heard | | 🏱 |
knew | | 🏱 |
listen | | 🏱 |
morning | 🏱 | 🏱 |
several | | 🏱 |
2 | area | | 🏱 |
ever | | 🏱 |
hours | | 🏱 |
measure | | 🏱 |
notice | | 🏱 |
order | | 🏱 |
piece | | 🏱 |
short | | 🏱 |
today | 🏱 | 🏱 |
true | | 🏱 |
3 | covered | | 🏱 |
cried | | 🏱 |
figure | | 🏱 |
horse | 🏱 | 🏱 |
money | 🏱 | 🏱 |
products | | 🏱 |
questions | | 🏱 |
since | | 🏱 |
usually | | 🏱 |
voice | | 🏱 |

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Benchmark Advance
Grade 2 High-Frequency Words Cross-Referenced with Dolch, Fry, and Clay*

Unit | Week | HFW | Dolch | Fry | Clay
9 | 1 | able | | 🏱 |
behind | | 🏱 |
carefully | | 🏱 |
common | | 🏱 |
easy | | 🏱 |
fact | | 🏱 |
remember | | 🏱 |
sure | | 🏱 |
vowel | | 🏱 |
whole | | 🏱 |
2 | ago | | 🏱 |
government | | 🏱 |
half | | 🏱 |
machine | | 🏱 |
pair | | 🏱 |
quickly | | 🏱 |
scientist | | 🏱 |
thousand | | 🏱 |
understood | | |
wait | | 🏱 |
3 | among | | 🏱 |
building | | 🏱 |
circle | | 🏱 |
decided | | 🏱 |
finally | | 🏱 |
heavy | | 🏱 |
include | | 🏱 |
nothing | | 🏱 |
special | | 🏱 |
wheel | | 🏱 |

* All high-frequency words in Grade 2 are taught in the explicit high-frequency word instruction within the Teacher’s Resource System. Units 1–4 consist of review words first practiced in Grade K and Grade 1.

Unit | Week | HFW | Dolch | Fry | Clay
10 | 1 | brought | | 🏱 |
contain | | 🏱 |
front | | 🏱 |
gave | 🏱 | 🏱 |
inches | | 🏱 |
material | | 🏱 |
noun | | 🏱 |
ocean | | 🏱 |
strong | | 🏱 |
verb | | 🏱 |
2 | built | | 🏱 |
correct | | 🏱 |
inside | | 🏱 |
island | | 🏱 |
language | | 🏱 |
oh | | 🏱 |
person | | 🏱 |
street | 🏱 | 🏱 |
system | | 🏱 |
warm | 🏱 | 🏱 |
3 | dark | | 🏱 |
clear | | 🏱 |
explain | | 🏱 |
force | | 🏱 |
minutes | | 🏱 |
object | | 🏱 |
plane | | 🏱 |
power | | 🏱 |
produce | | 🏱 |
surface | | 🏱 |

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