07 September 2018
Next week, in our phonics lessons, we’ll be learning about the j sound (phoneme) at the end of a word.
This is spelled -dge (that’s the grapheme) straight after short vowel sounds and -ge (a different grapheme) after all other sounds. Ask your child which words follow each pattern.
The children will be tested on the following words next Friday, 14 September.
There is space in their homework books for children to practise these words and it would be great to practise them in sentences so they also understand the meaning of the word.
badge
edge
bridge
fudge
charge
huge
change
village
13 July 2018
This week, the spellings are all tricky words from the Year 2 list. There are 64 words on the list in all. I’ve picked ten of the most difficult words which the children will be tested on.
| everybody |
| beautiful |
| hour |
| improve |
| sure |
| sugar |
| clothes |
| water |
| people |
| Christmas |
05 July 2018
This week, all the spellings contain the soft c sound.
| race |
| ice |
| cell |
| city |
| fancy |
| cylinder |
| circle |
29 June 2018
The spellings this week are homophones again. Instead of a list, children have a task to complete in their books.
We’ll review this on Thursday with homework and then children will be tested on 8 different homophones on Friday.
22 June 2018
The spellings this week are all plurals. Children need either add an s, add es or drop the y for an ies to make these words into the plural form.
| baby babies |
| cherry cherries |
| lady ladies |
| fox foxes |
| witch witches |
| table tables |
| pencil pencils |
| knee knees |
15 June 2018
There are only five spellings this week. However, children will have to use the words correctly in context to get the spelling correct.
| There are three cows. |
| Their cat is naughty. |
| They’re playing tennis. |
| Our class work hard. |
| Are we nearly there? |
08 June 2018
The spellings this week are homophones and near homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but have different meanings and often spellings.
| sea see |
| one won |
| quite quiet |
| hear here |
| blue blew |
| night knight |
| bare bear |
| to too two |
18 May 2018
The spellings this week consolidate our suffix learning by testing any eight words from the previous two lists: -ful & -less and -ment & -ness.
11 May 2018
We’re learning about -ness and -ment suffixes in phonics next week. Usually, you just add the suffix on to the root word. The exceptions are when the word ends in a y and is more than one syllable long. Eg. happiness or merriment. Argument is another exception as you drop the e from argue.
| happy happiness |
| sad sadness |
| kind kindness |
| quiet quietness |
| dark darkness |
| punish punishment |
| enjoy enjoyment |
| move movement |
| amaze amazement |
| measure measurement |
04 May 2018
The spellings this week can all have the suffix -ful or –less added to them (some can have both). The underlined words have an extra rule to follow when adding the suffix: drop the y for an i.
