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