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Spelling - Year 2

Spelling - Year 2: English Teaching Resource

Year 2 English programme of study - Writing - transcription:

Spelling:

• spell by:
  • segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly
  • learning new ways of spelling phonemes for which 1 or more spellings are already known, and learn some words with each spelling, including a few common homophones
  • learning to spell common exception words
  • learning to spell more words with contracted forms
  • learning the possessive apostrophe (singular) [for example, the girl’s book]
  • distinguishing between homophones and near-homophones
• add suffixes to spell longer words including –ment, –ness, –ful, –less, –ly
• apply spelling rules and guidance, as listed in English appendix 1

‘Spelling – Year 2’ covers a range of spelling skills and techniques to support many of the spelling objectives of the year 2 English curriculum listed above.

The resource covers:

1. prefixes
2. -ge and -dge
3. soft c and hard c
4. words with silent consonants (wr, gn and kn)
5. words ending le, al, el and il
6. words ending in -y
7. suffixes
8. doubling consonants
9. pluralising
10. ar and or after w
11. apostrophes for contraction and possession
12. words ending in -tion
13. homophones

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