Year 2 Spelling

14 June 2013

Posted on Friday 14 June 2013 by Mrs Weekes

This week’s spellings look at adding a suffix where the root word does not change eg. care – careless (care has not changed in any way when the suffix has been added).

  • careless
  • thoughtless
  • homeless
  • lifeless
  • fearless
  • jobless
  • thankless
  • headless
  • speechless
  • endless

07 June 2013

Posted on Friday 07 June 2013 by Mrs Weekes

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 14 June 2013.

Lions: Drop the e for ing

This is one of our three main spelling rules.

  • explore
  • exploring
  • decide
  • deciding
  • hope
  • hoping
  • write
  • writing
  • dive
  • diving

Tigers / Zebras: For short vowel sounds double up for ing

This is one of our three main spelling rules.

  • tap
  • tapping
  • hop
  • hopping
  • skip
  • skipping
  • pop
  • popping
  • get
  • getting

It’s the half-term break…

Posted on Tuesday 28 May 2013 by Mr Roundtree

…so there’s no homework or spellings this week.  Enjoy the holiday, whatever you get up to.

17 May 2013

Posted on Friday 17 May 2013 by

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 24 May 2013.

Zebras

Words using ‘igh’

  • high
  • night
  • height
  • fright
  • right
  • fight
  • tight
  • light
  • might
  • sight

Tigers

Adverbs ending in ‘ly’

  • sadly
  • fairly
  • slowly
  • quickly
  • kindly
  • shyly
  • proudly
  • nicely
  • loudly
  • sweetly

Lions

Lions will also be learning to change adjectives into adverbs. They will learn that if an adjective ends in ‘y’ they drop the ‘y’ and then add ‘ily’.

  • sadly
  • calmly
  • slowly
  • quickly
  • smartly
  • angrily
  • happily
  • scarily
  • nastily
  • stealthily

 

 

 

10 May 2013

Posted on Friday 10 May 2013 by

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 17 May 2013.

Zebras

Words with i_e split digraph – these make a ‘long i’ sound

  • bite
  • kite
  • quite
  • site
  • white
  • write
  • invite
  • drive
  • five
  • hive

 

Tigers

Words using ‘oo’, ‘u’ and ‘oul’ to make similar sounds.

  • hood
  • would
  • should
  • could
  • good
  • shook
  • took
  • push
  • pull
  • just

Lions

Words using ‘augh’ and ‘ough’.

  • bought
  • sought
  • fought
  • brought
  • nought
  • thought
  • naughty
  • daughter
  • taught
  • caught

 

03 May 2013

Posted on Friday 03 May 2013 by

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 10 May 2013.

Zebras

These are words that end in ‘ck’.

  • shock
  • stuck
  • trick
  • track
  • back
  • lick
  • click
  • pick
  • lock
  • flick

Tigers/ Lions

These are words with ‘tch’ to make the ‘ch’ sound.

  • catch
  • watch
  • patch
  • witch
  • stretch
  • match
  • kitchen
  • stitch
  • snatch
  • switch

 

26 April 2013

Posted on Friday 26 April 2013 by

This week’s spellings are homophones again. This time we are thinking about ‘n’ and ‘kn’ words. Your child will be tested on Friday 03 May 2013.

  • know
  • no
  • knew
  • new
  • knot
  • not
  • knight
  • night
  • knit
  • nit

 

19 April 2013

Posted on Friday 19 April 2013 by

This week’s spellings are homophones. These are words that sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning. Your child will be tested on Friday 26 April 2013.

  • meet
  • meat
  • deer
  • dear
  • see
  • sea
  • flee
  • flea
  • bare
  • bear

We’ll be thinking about other homophones during the week too.

 

22 March 2013

Posted on Thursday 21 March 2013 by

This week’s spellings will be tested on Thursday 28 March 2013.

Lions

The spellings are plurals ending in ‘ies’. When we change singular words that end in ‘y’ to make plurals, we need to drop the ‘y’ and add ‘ies’.

  • tries
  • cherries
  • stories
  • flies
  • berries
  • babies
  • lorries
  • ladies
  • families
  • cities

Tigers

This week’s spellings are words that make the ‘f’ sound using ‘ph’.

  • graph
  • phonics
  • dolphin
  • elephant
  • sphere
  • nephew
  • alphabet
  • telephone
  • photo
  • phase

Zebras

  • bony
  • greasy
  • lazy
  • scary
  • shiny
  • tasty
  • slimy
  • wavy
  • nosy
  • spiky

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15 March 2013

Posted on Thursday 14 March 2013 by

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 22 March 2013.

Lions

Words that end in ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘x’, ‘s’ or ‘ss’ need ‘es’ instead of ‘s’ at the end when you are saying more than one of them.

  • bushes
  • foxes
  • churches
  • boxes
  • brushes
  • torches
  • hisses
  • buses
  • wishes
  • classes

Tigers

The rule is words ending in ‘le’.

  • handle
  • angle
  • table
  • little
  • ankle
  • candle
  • able
  • simple
  • grumble
  • dawdle

Zebras

These words are common words that are being spelt incorrectly.

  • from
  • some
  • said
  • went
  • so
  • do
  • little
  • one

 

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