Spelling Scheme - Year 2

Year 2 - Overview

Autumn Term 1A

1. The /n/ sound spelt kn- and (less often) gn- at the beginning of words.
2. The /r/ sound spelt wr- at the beginning of words. 
3. The /s/ sound spelt c before e, i and y.
4. The /j/ sound spelt j or g.
5. The /j/ sound spelt as ge and dge.
6. Common Exception Words 1.

Consolidation.

Autumn Term 1B

1. The /l/ sound spelt –le at the end of words.
2. The /l/ sound spelt –el at the end of words. 
3. The /l/ sound spelt –al at the end of words.
4. Words ending –il.
5. Common Exception Words 2.
6. *Compound words 2.

Year 2, autumn term, spelling assessment.

Spring Term 2A

1. The /i/ sound spelt –y at the end of words. 
2. Adding –ies to words ending in –y.
3. Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root word ending in –y with a consonant before it.
4. Adding the endings – ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it.
5. Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter.
6. Common Exception Words 3.

Consolidation.

Spring Term 2B

1. The /u/ sound spelt o. 
2. The /ee/ sound spelt –ey.
3. The /o/ sound spelt a after w or qu
4. The /ur/ sound spelt or after w.
5. The /or/ sound spelt ar after w.
6. The /zh/ sound spelt s.

Year 2, spring term, spelling assessment.

Summer Term 3A

1. The /or/ sound spelt a before l and ll.
2. The suffixes –ment, –ness & –ful
3. The suffixes –less and –ly. 
4. Words ending in –tion.
5. Common Exception Words 4.
6. Common Exception Word 5.

Consolidation.

Summer Term 3B

1. Homophones 1.
2. Homophones and near-homophones 2.
3. Contractions.
4. The possessive apostrophe (singular nouns).
5. Common Exception Words 6
6. *Question words. 

Year 2, summer term, spelling assessment.

Year 2 - Term 1A

Week 1

The /n/ sound spelt kn and gn at the beginning of words.

1. knock
2. know
3. knee 
4. knew
5. knife
6. knight
7. knit
8. gnat
9. gnaw
10. sign
11. gnome
12. design

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Week 2

The /r/ sound spelt wr at the beginning of words.

1. write
2. written
3. wrote 
4. wrong
5. wrap
6. wrestle
7. wrist
8. wrinkle
9. wreath
10. wreck
11. wry
12. writer

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Week 3

The /s/ sound spelt c before e, i and y.

1. race
2. ice
3. cell 
4. city
5. fancy
6. face
7. price
8. nice
9. mice
10. icy
11. dance
12. space

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Week 4

The /j/ sound spelt j or g.

1. gem
2. giant
3. magic 
4. giraffe
5. energy
6. jacket
7. jar
8. jog
9. join
10. adjust
11. jail

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Week 5

The /j/ sound spelt ge and dge.

1. badge
2. edge
3. bridge 
4. dodge
5. fudge
6. age
7. huge
8. change
9. charge
10. bulge
11. village
12. strange

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Week 6

Common Exception Words 1

1. door
2. floor
3. poor 
4. because
5. find
6. kind
7. mind
8. behind
9. child
10. children
11. wild
12. climb

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Year 2 - Term 1B

Week 1

The /l/ sound spelt –le at the end of words.

1. table
2. apple
3. bottle
4. little 
5. middle
6. wiggle
7. giggle
8. paddle
9. rubble
10. multiple
11. riddle
12. able

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Week 2

The /l/ sound spelt –el at the end of words.

1. camel
2. tunnel
3. squirrel
4. travel 
5. towel
6. tinsel
7. cruel
8. fuel
9. model
10. chapel
11. angel
12. cancel

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Week 3

The /l/ sound spelt –al at the end of words.

1. metal
2. pedal 
3. capital
4. hospital
5. animal
6. natural
7. actual
8. central
9. final
10. normal
11. local
12. total

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Week 4

Words ending –il.

1. pencil
2. fossil 
3. nostril
4. civil
5. lentil
6. pupil
7. April
8. evil
9. devil
10. peril
11. tranquil

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Week 5

Common Exception Words 2

1. most 
2. only
3. both
4. old
5. cold
6. gold
7. hold
8. told
9. every
10. everybody
11. even

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Week 6

*Compound words 2

1. greenhouse
2. cupboard
3. everybody
4. everywhere 
5. everyone
6. anyone
7. windmill
8. dustbin
9. bedroom
10. classroom
11. popcorn
12. weekend

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Year 2 - Term 2A

Week 1

The /i/ sound spelt –y at the end of words.

1. cry
2. fly 
3. dry
4. try
5. reply
6. July
7. shy
8. my
9. sly
10. sky
11. multiply
12. why

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Week 2

Adding –ies to words ending in –y.

  1. flies
  2. tries
  3. replies
  4. copies
  5. babies
  6. carries
  7. dries
  8. families
  9. marries
  10. stories
  11. ladies

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Week 3

Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root word ending in –y with a consonant before it.

1. copied
2. copier
3. copying
4. happier 
5. happiest
6. cried
7. crying
8. replied
9. replying
10. tried
11. trier
12. trying

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Week 4

Adding the endings – ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it.

1. hiking
2. hiked
3. hiker 
4. nicer
5. nicest
6. shiny
7. shining
8. scary
9. scaring
10. icy
11. icing

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Week 5

Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter.

1. patting
2. patted
3. humming
4. hummed 
5. dropping
6. dropped
7. sadder
8. saddest
9. fatter
10. fattest
11. runner
12. runny

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Week 6

Common Exception Words 3.

1. great
2. break
3. steak 
4. pretty
5. beautiful
6. fast
7. last
8. past
9. father
10. after

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Year 2 - Term 2B

Week 1

The /u/ sound spelt o.

1. other 
2. mother
3. brother
4. nothing
5. Monday
6. another
7. money
8. cover
9. honey
10. wonder
11. discover

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Week 2

The /ee/ sound spelt –ey.

1. key
2. donkey
3. monkey 
4. chimney
5. valley
6. trolley
7. turkey
8. kidney
9. hockey
10. journey
11. parsley
12. grey

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Week 3

The /o/ sound spelt a after w or qu.

1. want
2. watch 
3. wander
4. quantity
5. squash
6. wasp
7. wash
8. squad
9. quality
10. wanted
11. warm
12. was

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Week 4

The /ur/ sound spelt or after w.

1. word
2. work 
3. worm
4. world
5. worth
6. worse
7. worship
8. worst
9. worthy
10. world
11. worry

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Week 5

The /or/ sound spelt ar after w.

1. war
2. warm
3. towards 
4. ward
5. wardrobe
6. award
7. reward
8. swarm
9. warder
10. warplane
11. warfare
12. warship

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Week 6

The /zh/ sound spelt s.

1. television
2. treasure
3. usual
4. division
5. vision 
6. measure
7. usually
8. pleasure
9. unusual
10. revision
11. conclusion
12. explosion

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Year 2 - Term 3A

Week 1

The /or/ sound spelt a before l and ll.

1. all
2. ball
3. call
4. walk 
5. talk
6. always
7. small
8. wall
9. tall
10. tallest
11. football

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Week 2

The suffixes –ment, –ness & –ful.

1. enjoyment
2. merriment 
3. experiment
4. sadness
5. plainness
6. happiness
7. careful
8. playful
9. plentiful
10. forgetful
11. hopeful
12. painful

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Week 3

The suffixes –less and –ly.

1. hopeless
2. penniless 
3. fearless 
4. careless
5. joyless
6. spotless
7. badly
8. happily
9. lovely
10. slowly
11. quickly
12. angrily

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Week 4

Words ending in –tion.

1. station
2. fiction
3. motion
4. national
5. section
6. mention 
7. position
8. question
9. competition
10. attention
11. education
12. action
13. creation
14. completion

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Week 5

Common Exception Words 4.

1. class
2. grass 
3. pass
4. plant
5. path
6. bath
7. hour
8. move
9. prove
10. improve

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Week 6

Common Exception Words 5.

1. sure
2. sugar
3. eye
4. could 
5. should
6. would
7. who
8. whole
9. any
10. many

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Year 2 - Term 3B

Week 1

Homophones 1.

1. to 
2. too
3. two
4. there
5. their
6. they’re

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Week 2

Homophones and near-homophones 2.

1. here/hear
2. quite/quiet
3. see/sea 
4. bare/bear
5. one/won
6. sun/son
7. be/bee
8. blue/blew
9. night/knight
10. ark/arc
11. sight/site
12. bowled/bold

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Week 3

Contractions

1. can’t
2. didn’t
3. hasn’t
4. couldn’t 
5. it’s
6. I’ll
7. he’ll
8. she’ll
9. won’t
10. shouldn’t
11. mustn’t
12. aren’t
13. should’ve

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Week 4

The possessive apostrophe (singular nouns).

  1. Megan’s
  2. Ravi’s
  3. girl’s
  4. child’s
  5. man’s
  6. woman’s
  7. chief’s
  8. plumber’s
  9. teacher’s
  10. boy’s
  11. baby’s
  12. Smith’s 

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Week 5

Common Exception Words 6.

1. clothes
2. busy
3. people
4. water 
5. again
6. half
7. money
8. Mr
9. Mrs
10. parents
11. Christmas

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The download includes: powerpoint, word list, look cover write out & word search. 

Week 6

*Question words.

1. who
2. what
3. how 
4. which
5. where
6. whom
7. whose
8. why
9. when

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Feast: SY2T3BW6Fe

The download includes: powerpoint, word list, look cover write out & word search. 

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