Year 2 Spelling

13 September 2013

If you are familiar with how we have done spellings in KS1 previously, then you will see that we are trying something different this year.

All the children in Y1 and Y2 have been mixed up depending on their phonic knowledge.  There is a daily phonics lesson, ensuring a secure knowledge which can be applied in writing and reading.

There are three groups: red, yellow and green.  The children know which group they are in and there is a coloured sticker on the front of their learning list book.  You will notice that the spellings below are grouped in these colours so please make sure you know which list you should be learning with your child.  The spellings are linked with previous learning.

All spellings will be tested on Friday 20 September.

If you have any questions please come and ask.

05 July 2013

This week’s spellings will be a challenge!  Next week’s test could include any spelling from the last four weeks.

On Friday 12 July, the children will be tested on a mixture of different spellings so be prepared!

28 June 2013

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

This means the k is not said out loud when we blend or read the word;  k and the next letter are a special grapheme which work together so they make one phoneme: a ‘nnn’ sound.

• knuckle
• knee
• knit
• knickers
• knob
• knife
• knight
• knock
• knot
• kneel

21 June 2013

This week’s spellings look at the use of the apostrophe as a contraction (to shorten words).

eg  could not – couldn’t

Lions

• weren’t
• couldn’t
• haven’t
• hadn’t
• aren’t
• can’t
• won’t
• you’re
• you’ll
• they’re

Tigers

• don’t
• can’t
• I’ve
• won’t
• isn’t
• doesn’t
• she’s
• there’s
• I’m
• I’ll

14 June 2013

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

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…

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

17 May 2013

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

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

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