Year 2 Spelling

18 October 2019

Next week, we will be looking at words which have an -il or     -al ending. These are much less frequent than the -le ending.

• metal
• pedal
• capital
• hospital
• animal
• pencil
• nostril
• fossil

The children will be tested on these words on Thursday 24th October 2019.

Following each weekly spelling test, the children are asked to spell random  words that have already been learnt. Often, we find that lots of spellings are correct for a test but soon forgotten.

11 October 2019

Next week, we will be learning about the –el phoneme at the end of a word.

This spelling is much less common than last week’s –le.

camel

tunnel

wheel

travel

towel

angel

hotel

label

The children will be tested on these words on Friday 18th October 2019.

04 October 2019

This week, we would like the children to learn how to spell words ending in le.

table

apple

bottle

little

middle

castle

battle

jungle

Test will take place on Friday 11 October 2019.

27 September 2019

This week’s spellings are words with a silent k.

In words starting with kn the letter k is silent. Silent letters are the letters in words that are not pronounced but make a huge difference to the meaning and sometimes the pronunciation of the whole word.

knock
know
knew
knee
knight
knot
knife
knit

The children will be tested on these words on Friday 04 October 2019

20 September 2019

This week, all the spellings contain a soft c. The letter “c” has two sounds, hard “c” and soft “c”. The hard sound of “c” occurs most often. (cat)
When “c” is followed by (a, o, u) it is sounded as “k” (hard c).
When “c” is followed by (e, i, y) it is sounded as “s” (soft c).

•  race
•  ice
•  cell
•  city
•  fancy
•  police
•  circle
•  pencil

13 September 2019

Next week, we’ll be learning about the j sound at the start and in the middle of a word.  It is usually spelt with a g before e, i and y and with a j before a, o and u.

06 September 2019

This week’s spellings relate to the ‘j‘ sound at the end of a word. They will be tested on Friday 13 September 2019.

The j sound is spelled -dge straight after short vowel sounds (eg badge – the ‘a’ is making a short sound) and -ge (eg change – the ‘a’ is making a longer ‘ay’ sound) after all other sounds.

Take a look at our spelling guide for some suggested methods for learning these spellings.

12 July 2019

This week, the spellings are some of the trickier words from the Year 2 list.

05 July 2019

This week, the spellings all end in -tion.

28 June 2019

We’re learning about the -ment suffix in phonics next week. When the suffix -ment is added to the root word, which is usually a verb, the new word becomes a noun.