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.

NB. Scroll down to find some Spellings Practice sheets which you could print at home. We will use these in class every Friday morning prior to our Spellings Check.

Term 2 

 

Week 1: Spellings for Friday 6th November

Focus: w, wh + f, ff, ph 

(Notice suffixes _ing + _ed below; these are revisited throughout Year 2)

1. walking
2. where
3. whispered
4. from
5. huffed
6. phone

Common Exception Words:

1. behind
2. find

Week 2: Spellings for Friday 13th November

Phoneme: long oo

Graphemes: u_e, ou, ue, ew 

1. afternoon
2. rules
3. group
4. rescue
5. knew

Common Exception Words:

1. mind
2. kind

Week 3: Spellings for Friday 20th November

Phoneme: 'y+oo'

Graphemes: u, u_e, ue, ew

1. unicorn
2. costume
3. few

Common Exception Words:

1. wild
2. child
3. eye
4. climb

Week 4: Spellings for Friday 27th November 

Phonemes: short oo + ar

Graphemes: oo, u, oul + ar, a, al

1. football
2. pushed
3. shouldn't
4. couldn't
5. started  (note _ed suffix)
6. sharpened (note _ed suffix)
7. after
8. calm

Week 5: Spellings for Friday 4th December

Focus in class: Possessive Apostrophes (singular)

This week, we will be learning how to use singular possessive apostrophes, eg. The dog's ball.  I have decided not to check the children's understanding of possessive apostrophes; instead, we will focus on spelling some of the Year 2 Common Exception Words.

NB.  Sometimes, when children learn about possessive apostrophes, they start to incorrectly use the apostrophe for a plural (eg. The dog's were running) and this is something which I will teach them this week.  

Spellings

1. most
2. only
3. both
4. clothes
5. old
6. cold
7. gold
8. told
9. hold

Week 6: Spellings for Friday 11th December 

Focus: suffix _es

'Change the y to an i and +es'

1. tries
2. replies
3. parties
4. stories
5. hobbies
6. cities

Week 7: No spellings this week

 

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.

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