Year 2 Spelling

Spellings – 28.02.25

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

“Double the letter to protect the short vowel sound when adding -ing.”

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 7th March.

Challenge: Which word on this list breaks the rule?

helping
looking
jumping
mixing
printing
raining
shopping
sorting
swimming
watching

Spellings – 07.02.25

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

“Use ck at the end of a word after a short vowel sound.”

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 14th February.

Challenge: Which word on this list breaks the rule?

shark
shock
cloak
brick
magic
duck
quick
sock
crack
check

Spellings – 10.01.25

This week’s spelling words are the days of the week!

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

Challenge: Why do they all have capital letters?

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Spellings – 06.12.24

This week’s spelling words are all tricky words.  They are common exception words that don’t follow usual spelling/sound patterns so we learn to read them at sight (without decoding).

Please practise these words for a test on Friday 13th December.

Challenge: What makes each of these words tricky?

again
any
break
climb
every
floor
hour
many
only
prove

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.