Year 2 Spelling

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:

13 November 2020

Next week, we’re learning about words which have an i sound spelt with a –y at the end of the word.  The children will be tested on these words on Friday 20 November.

• cry
• try
• why
• reply
• July
• spy
• identify
• multiply

06 November 2021

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

On top of these words, we are continuing to check some of the common exception words from Year 1. Please help your child by regularly checking the spelling of these words.

Year 1 Common Exception Words 
the    do
to    today      of
said      says    are
were     was      is
his      has 
you     your      they
be      he      me
she      we       ask
go      so       no
by     my       here
there    where       friend
love    come      some
one    once     school
put      push
pull    full
house     our

16 October 2020

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

09 October 2020

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 16 October 2020

02 October 2020

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 09 October 2020

25 September 2020

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

18 September 2020

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.

11 September 2020

This week’s spellings relate to the ‘j‘ sound at the end of a word. They will be tested on Friday 18 September 2020.

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.