Spellings and Phonics
Week 6
Phonics Spellings:
This week we are reviewing all the alternative sounds we have learnt this term and also doing a mock Phonics Screening Check.
Tricky words: many, any, friend, through, two, your, eye, because
Year 2 Spellings: This week we are reviewing homophones.
- great/grate
- son/sun
- buy/bye
- whole/hole
- blue/blew
- hare/hair
Week 5
Phonics Spellings:
(ur) ear - learn, early, earth, search, heard, rehearsal
(r) wr - wrist, wrong, wrapping, wriggle, write, wrinkle
(s) st, sc - listen, whistle, castle, science, muscle, scent
schwa at the end of words - collar, sailor, actor, caterpillar, flavour, colour
Tricky words: many, any, friend, through, two, your, eye, because
Year 2 Spellings: This week we are reviewing contractions.
- should've
- couldn't
- don't
- I'll
- we're
- they'll
- it's
- I'm
- would've
- you've
- hadn't
- wouldn't
Week 4
Phonics Spellings: We are reviewing these sounds from last week to make sure we are secure with all the alternative sounds for 'a'.
(ar) a - father, nasty, mask, craft, branching
(or) a - water, ball, small, tall
(o) a - want. squash, swap, wasp, watch
(air) ear/ere - bear, pear, wear, tear, there, where
Year 2 Spellings: This week we are looking at words ending in '-tion'.
- station
- fiction
- motion
- section
- addition
- subtraction
- potion
- option
- introduction
Week 3
Phonics Spellings:
(ar) a - father, nasty, mask, craft, branching
(or) a - water, ball, small, tall
(o) a - want. squash, swap, wasp, watch
(air) ear/ere - bear, pear, wear, tear, there, where
Year 2 Spellings: This week we are working using the suffixes -less and -ly.
- badly
- slowly
- quickly
- happily
- hopeless
- joyless
- careless
- fearless
Week 2
Phonics Spellings:
(or) au, aur, oor - author, dinosaur, floor, door
(ch) tch - patch, kitchen, itchy
(ch) ture - adventure, picture, feature
(ar) al - palm, calm, almond
Year 2 Spellings: This week we are working on the possessive apostrophe.
Here are some examples. Can you think of some more examples at home?
- This is Rachel's car.
- That is Owen's dog.
- I ate a slice of Sarah's pizza.
- Daniel broke his mum's necklace.
Week 1
Phonics Sounds:
- (ee) ey - donkey, monkey, money
- (ur) or - word, work, world, worse
- (oo) u, oul - awful, playful, could, pudding, octopus, would, should
- (air) are - share, square, stare, care, dare, scare
Year 2 Spellings: This week we will be working on making words that end in 'y' plural. This involves changing the 'y' to '-ies'.
- bodies
- lollies
- babies
- berries
- butterflies
- ladies
- stories
- bunnies
- ponies
- puppies
