Year 2 Spring Overview – Spellings and Phonics 2016 – 2017
Year 2
As words with new GPC’s are introduced, many previously taught GPC’s can be revised at the same time as these words will usually contain them.
Year 1 common exception words – Revisit these in spellings.
Pupil’s attention should be drawn to the grapheme-phoneme correspondences that do and do not fit in with what has been taught so far.
The, a, do, to, today, of, said, says, are, were, was, is, his, has, I, you, your, they, be, he, me, she, we, no, go, so, by, my, here, there, where, love, come, some,
one, once, ask, friend, school, put, push, pull, full, house, our
Year 2 common exception words
Some words are exceptions in some accents but not in others – e.g. past, last, fast, path and bath are not exceptions in accents where the a in these words is
pronounced /ae/, as in cat.
Great, break and steak are the only common words where the /ei/ sound is spelt ea.
Door, floor, poor, because, find, kind, mind, behind, child, children, wild, climb, most, only, both, old, cold, gold, hold, told, every, everybody, even, great,
break, steak, pretty, beautiful, after, fast, last, past, father, class, grass, pass, plant, path, bath, hour, move, prove, improve, sure, sugar, eye, could, should,
would, who, whole, any, many, clothes, busy, people, water, again, half, money, Mr, Mrs, parents, Christmas
Spring 1
R and R
Reading and Writing
Rules to be taught
Words that can be used
Week 1 and 2 –Do a test of the Spring Spelling Bee Word record card. See Appendix 2 for advice on how to teach the rules.
Week 1 - Common exception words – Words with no rules but you will see lots. Door, floor, poor, because, find, kind, mind, behind, child and children.
Climb, most, only, both, old, cold, gold, hold, told and every.
Week 2 - Common exception words – Words with no rules but you will see lots. Wild, sure, sugar, eye, could, would, who, whole, half, money and Christmas.
Everybody, plant, hour, move, prove, improve, any, many, water, again and parents.
= words seen in Autumn
Week 3
(Long a - ai ay a-e eigh ey
ei)
Adding – ed, -ing, -er
and – est to a root word
ending in –y consonant.
Copied, copier, copying
Adding the endings –ing,
-ed, -er, -est and –y to
words ending in – e with
a consonant before it.
Hiking, hiked, hiker.
Adding –ing, -ed, -er, -est
and –y to words of one
syllable ending in a single
consonant letter after a
single vowel letter.
Sadder, saddest
Happier, happiest
Nicer, nicest, shiny.
Patting, patted
Week 4
(Long a - ai ay a-e eigh ey
ei)
Words ending in – tion.
Station, fiction, motion, national and section.
Friction, action, audition
Badge, edge, fudge.
Week 5
(Long e - ee ea e-e ie ey y)
The /dʒ/ sound spelt as
ge and dge at the end of
words, and sometimes
spelt as g elsewhere in
words before e, i and y
Age, huge, change, charge.
Homophones and near –
homophones.
There, were, where, we’re, their and they’re
Bear, bare, boy, buoy, quite, quiet.
Ball, always.
Talk, walk
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt a
before l and ll
Week 6
(Long e - ee ea e-e ie ey y)
Contractions
Can’t, didn’t, couldn’t, don’t, hasn’t
I’m, how’s, you’re, we’ll.
Words ending in – il
Pencil, fossil, nostril
Council, lentil, pupil
Spring 2
R and R
Reading and Writing
Rules to be taught
Words that can be used
Week 1
(Long i – igh ie i-e y i)
The /s/ sound spelt c
before e, i and y.
Race, ice, cell
Fancy, mice, celebrate, excited
Knock, know, knee
The /n/sound spelt kn
and (less often) gn at the
beginning of words.
Sign, knew, gnaw, gnome.
Write, written and wrote.
Wrap, writer, wrinkle, wreck.
The /r/ sound spelt wr at
the beginning of words.
Week 2
(Long o – ow o-e o oe)
The suffixes – ment, ness, -ful, -less and – ly
Enjoyment, careful, playful, fully, sadness
Hopeless, plainness, badly.
Megan’s, Mostafa’s girl’s child’s man’s Dog’s, cat’s, woman’s, boy’s
The possessive
apostrophe (Singular
nouns)
Week 3
(Long o – ow o-e o oe)
The /l/ or /el/ sound
spelt – le at the end of
words.
Table, apple, bottle.
Middle, circle, castle, ankle.
Camel, tunnel, travel.
The /l/ or /el/ sound
spelt –el at the end of
words.
Tinsel, squirrel, jewel, feel.
Metal, pedal, capital.
Animal, capital, tropical, actual.
The /l/ or /el/ sound
spelt – al at the end of
words.
Week 4
(Long u – oo ew ue u-e)
The /i:/ sound spelt – ey.
Key, donkey.
Monkey, chimney
The /ɒ/ sound spelt a
after w and qu
Want, watch
Squash, wander
Television, treasure.
The /ʒ/ sound spelt s
Usual, unusual
Week 5
(Long u – oo ew ue u-e)
The /ɜ:/ sound spelt or
after w
Word, work, worse.
Worth, worm
War, warm
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt ar
after w
Towards, warp
Mother, brother
Monday, nothing
The /ʌ/ sound spelt o
Week 6
Consolidation
The aI/ sound spelt –y at
the end of words.
Cry, fly, dry
Reply, July, fry
Flies, tries, replies
Adding – es to nouns and
verbs ending in –y
Candies, babies, carries, copies