Year 2 Spelling

07 May 2021

Spellings:

This week’s spellings are common exception words (words that we use a lot but do not follow the usual spelling patterns).

pass

grass

father

hold

told

gold

prove

move

last

fast

30 April 2021

This week’s spellings are common exception words (words that we use a lot but do not follow the usual spelling patterns).

• child
• children
• Christmas
• class
• climb
• clothes
• cold
• could
• door
• even

23 April 2020

We’ve continued learning about alternative spellings as part of our Phase 5 phonics learning, focusing on the ‘ai’ sound.

• stray
• train
• baby
• cake
• mate
• weigh
• grey
• great

26 March 2021

We’ve continued learning about alternative spellings as part of our Phase 5 phonics learning, focusing on the ‘oa’ sound.

• coat
• road
• stone
• throne
• blow
• show
• hold
• gold

19 March 2021

We’ve continued learning about alternative spellings as part of our Phase 5 phonics learning, focusing on the ‘igh’ sound.

• fight
• might
• time
• Friday
• tidy
• pie
• cry
• kite

Practise these spellings, writing them into sentences and discussing meaning. The children will be tested on them on Friday 26 March.

12 March 2021

This week’s spellings are based on words with Phase 5 alternative spellings that we’ve been recapping this week:

• teddy
• eight
• straight
• delete
• stream
• plate
• monkey
• train

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 19 March. When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning. Look at the spelling activities guide on the website and in your child’s homework books for some ideas to practise these words.

11 December 2020

Next week, we will be learning words which have a silent w.

• write
• wrote
• wrist
• wrong
• wrap
• wriggle
• wreck
• sword

04 December 2020

Spellings:

Next week, the phoneme we’re learning about is u which is spelled with an o.

• Monday
• nothing
• brother
• mother
• money
• worry
• love
• other

The children will be tested on these words on Friday 6th December.

27 November 2020

Next week, we will be learning the phoneme or. This is spelt with an a before l and ll.

• all
• ball
• call
• small
• talk
• walk
• always
• altogether

20 November 2020

Next week, we will be learning about adding –es to nouns and verbs that end with a -y.

The children need to learn to drop the -y  for an -i before adding –es.

Here are the spellings to learn: