Spelling

24 June 2016

This week’s spellings all follow the double up for a short vowel sound rule and are from the Year 3/4 spelling curriculum.

accidentally
actually
business
disappear
different
difficult
occasionally
thousand
opposite
possession

Some of these spellings may seem familiar but it is essential that we keep revisiting the double up for a short vowel sound  rule. Within this list, there are examples where the double up rule isn’t always followed. Can you child spot these? There is also a red herring within this list. Can you spot it?

double up for a short vowel sound

In English spelling, we come across two types of vowel sounds – short vowel sounds like ‘a’ in apple and ‘e’ in berry and long vowel sounds like ‘a’ in change. Usually (but not always), the consonants after a short vowel sound are doubled. For example, opposite has a short ‘o’ at the start and is followed by a pair of ‘p’s.

24 June 2016

This week’s spellings highlight some words which require a hyphen along with some other simple words which have tricky spellings which we often forget.

• to co-operate
• co-operated
• co-operating
• to co-ordinate
• co-ordinated
• co-ordinating
• to co-own
• to re-enter
• re-entering
• re-entered
• queue
• rhythm
• rhyme
• shoulder

These spellings will be tested on Friday 01 July. Spelling should be practised at least four times a week for about ten minutes each time and we’ve created lots of different ways to practise spelling while in class which children can use at home.

17 June 2016

The spellings this week are again for all Year 2 children.

17 June 2016

Red and yellow group:
are
come
here
said
some
there
were
where

These are more words where phonics doesn’t help a whole lot to spell them. Please help your child to hear and understand the difference between where and were.

Green group:
I will ask you any ten spellings of the days of the week and the months of the year.

17 June 2016

This week’s spellings have come about as a result of all the spelling learning we have done around the letter w.

wait
weight
went
where
were
woman
women
weather
whether
wrong

There are some homophones (two words that sound the same but are spelt differently), an irregular plural and some high frequency words that are commonly spelt wrong. Why not try encouraging your child to spot words within words to help memorise spellings (the response to “where?” could be “here!”)?

17 June 2016

What other words can children find that have ei in? Lots come after a c, but some don’t. Homophones should always be practised in sentences.

10 June 2016

-ent, -ence or –ency

This week’s spellings are all nouns that end in –ence.

Children should learn the words and investigate which words can be changed to have an –ent or –ency ending.

These spellings will be tested on Friday 17 June.

10 June 2016

This week’s spellings have been chosen by the children and me because they’re words we’ve noticed lots of us make mistakes on. These spellings will be tested on Friday 17 June.

• favourite
• colour
• excited
• excellent
• different
• altogether
• absolutely
• definitely
• necessarily
• minutes

10 June 2016

Yellow and Red group: I have chosen eight ‘common exception words’ as your spellings this week. These are words which don’t follow the usual rules of phonics.
friend
one
once
our
school
house 
your
love

Green group:  I will be asking you any ten words from the following list of ‘common exception words’.

10 June 2016

The spellings this week are for everyone in Year 2.