Spellings Checks in Year 2

Each Friday, we will check spellings linked to that week's Rocket Phonics learning, so the sounds/words should be familiar to the children.  Some weeks, the children will also have Year 2 Common Exception Words (CEWs) to learn, see below.  Thank you.

Term 1

Spellings will start on the 2nd Friday of Term 1 (Friday 11th September) and this will be called 'Week 1'.

Week 1: Spellings for Friday 11th September

Phoneme: /ai/

Graphemes: ai, ay, a-e, a, eigh,  ea, ey

paint

play

made

table

eight 

they

Common Exception Words:

great

steak

Week 2: Spellings for Friday 18th September

Phoneme: /ee/

Graphemes: ee, ea, e_e, ie, y, ey 

been

beach

scene

field

happy

donkey

Common Exception Words:

break

again

Week 3: Spellings for Friday 25th September

Phoneme: /igh/

Graphemes: igh, i, i_e, ie, y

light

child

shine

pie

why

Common Exception Words:

any

many

Week 4: Spellings for Friday 2nd October

Phoneme: /oa/

Graphemes: oa, o_e, ow, oe, o

float

globe

flow

toe

focus

Common Exception Words:

every

everybody

Week 5: Spellings for Friday 9th October

Focus: Homophones

blue

blew

pair

pear

here

hear

Common Exception Words:

money

people

Week 6: Spellings for Friday 16th October

Focus: Suffixes _s and _es 

(If the word ends in ch, sh, s, x, or z then add _es)

friends

apples

glasses

boxes

matches

splashes

Common Exception Words: n/a

Week 7: Friday 23rd October

There will not be a Spellings Check on Friday 23rd October; during the week, we will complete our Rocket Phonics end-of-unit assessments.