Spelling Mixed Practice
Year 2 Spelling Safari: add -ful and -less, choose see or sea and blew or blue, and make contractions like didn't and I'll. Free to print.
Year 2 Spelling Worksheets
Learning to spell common exception words and applying the spelling patterns and rules taught in Year 2.
Year 2 English6 worksheets
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Common Exception Words Practice
Year 2 common exception words worksheet: Look, Cover, Write, Check for 12 words, joined handwriting, gap-fills and a dictation sentence.
Suffixes Ment Ness Ful Less and Ly
Year 2 suffix sorting worksheet: pupils sort 15 words ending in -ment, -ness, -ful, -less and -ly into boxes, then add their own.
Adding Suffixes to Words Ending in Y or E
Year 2 spelling worksheet on suffixes: drop the e, change y to i or double the letter. Hoping, flies, biggest, patting. Answers included.
Contraction Apostrophes
Year 2 contraction apostrophes worksheet: fill 12 gaps in a rainy-day story with it's, can't, won't and more, then spot a possessive.
Homophones and Near Homophones
Year 2 homophones worksheet: knight and night, to, too and two, there, their and they're, quiet and quite, plus a sun and son sentence.
Curriculum objectives covered
Spelling
“Learning new ways of spelling phonemes for which one or more spellings are already known, and learn some words with each spelling, including a few common homophones”
Spelling
“Learning to spell more words with contracted forms”
Spelling
“Distinguishing between homophones and near-homophones”
Spelling
“Add suffixes to spell longer words, including -ment, -ness, -ful, -less, -ly”
Spelling
“Learning to spell common exception words”
Spelling
“Write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the GPCs, common exception words and punctuation taught so far.”
Handwriting
“Form lower-case letters of the correct size relative to one another”
Handwriting
“Start using some of the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined”
Spelling
“Apply spelling rules and guidance, as listed in English Appendix 1”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly (see English Appendix 2), including full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas for lists and apostrophes for contracted forms and the possessive (singular)”
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Reading Comprehension
Predicting what might happen next on the basis of what has been read so far, and discussing the sequence of events in books.
Writing
Planning what to write and encapsulating ideas sentence by sentence, building towards longer pieces of connected writing.
Grammar and Punctuation
Writing sentences with different forms — statement, question, exclamation and command — and choosing the correct form for the purpose.