Year 2 Spelling

Spellings – 22.11.24

This week’s spelling words relate to our phonics learning.

We’ve been learning about graphemes ‘ci’ and ‘ti’ which both sound like /sh/.

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 29th November.

Challenge: Can you find any other words that use ci or ti sounding like /sh/?

fiction
station
emotion
cautious
action
special
magician
delicious
precious
social

This week’s tricky words are:

hour
any
many
through

Spellings – 15.11.24

This week’s spelling words relate to our phonics learning.

We’ve been learning about grapheme ‘y’ sounding like /i/ as in words like myth and gym, and grapheme ‘dge’ sounding like /j/ as in edge and dodge.

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 22nd November.

gym
myth
bicycle
mystery
crystal
bridge
badge
dodge
fudge
ledge

This week’s tricky words are:

move
improve
parents
shoe

Spellings – 18.10.24

This week’s spelling words relate to our phonics learning.

We’ve been learning about grapheme ‘wh’ sounding like /w/ as in words like wheel and white, and grapheme ‘ie’ sounding like /ee/ as in field and shield.

Please practise these words for a test on Thursday 24th October.

whale
while
wheel
white
whisper
field
shriek
belief
shield
brownie

This week’s tricky words are:

because
once
our
friend

Spellings – 11.10.24

This week’s spelling words relate to our phonics learning.

We’ve been learning about grapheme ‘i’ sounding like /igh/ as in words like find and kind, and grapheme ‘a’ sounding like /ai/ as in basic and paper.

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 18th October.

spider
tiger
find
kind
wild
later
acorn
basic
paper
chasing

This week’s tricky words are:

two
eye
friend
thought

Spellings – 04.10.24

This week’s spelling words relate to our phonics learning.

We’ve been learning about digraph ea sounding like /e/ as in words like head and thread, and digraph ir as in bird and shirt.

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 11th October.

head
bread
spread
thread
feather
bird
skirt
girl
first
shirt

This week’s tricky words are:

they
your
come
my

Spellings 06.09.24

To start the year, we’ll be recapping some common exception words. These are words with unfamiliar spelling and sound patterns that ‘break’ common phonics rules.

This week’s words will be tested on Friday 13.09.24.

Spellings – 10.05.24

This week’s spelling words are from our current spelling unit – Why do some words have the spelling ey for the sound /ee/?

We’re continuing to work on adding -s and -es to words.

Swap the y for an i before adding -es.

When the word ends in the digraphs ay, oy, ey, we just add -s.

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 17th May.

chimneys
berries
jellies
turkeys
valleys
monkeys
lollies
trolleys
alleys
jockeys

Spellings – 03.05.24

This week’s spelling words are from our current spelling unit – Why do I swap the y for an i when I add the suffix -es?

Swap the y for an i before adding -es.

When the word ends in the digraphs ay, oy, ey, we just add -s.

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 10th May.

cry/cries
fly/flies
dry/dries
try/tries
baby/babies
party/parties
penny/pennies
body/bodies
donkey/donkeys
enjoy/enjoys

Spellings – 26.04.24

This week’s spelling words are from our spelling learning this week – The ‘W Special’

The /w/ sound affects how the graphemes a, ar and or are said.
Note that qu is made up of /k/ and /w/, so also affects the graphemes a, ar and or.

We double the final consonant to protect a short vowel sound when adding -ing.

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 3rd May.

wagging
warning
watering
working
squatting
swapping
arm
warm
fork
work

Spellings – 15.03.24

This week’s spellings are from our spelling learning this week:

When a root word ends in a consonant then e, drop the e before adding -est.

When a root word ends in a consonant then e, drop the e before adding -y.

In addition, there are two prickly words in which the a grapheme makes an /e/ sound. Children will be tested on these spellings on Friday 22nd March 2024.

Here are some Super Spelling Strategies to help at home.

nicest
latest
safest
bravest
noisy
scary
shiny
icy
any
many