Year 2 Spelling, Bradshaw Hall Primary School
Below is an overview of the spelling rules/sounds taught for each wordlist in year 2.
Wordlists 7 - 12 (Year 2)
List 7
List 8
List 9
List 10
List 11
List 12
Sounds/Spelling Rules
The /d_ʒ/ sound spelt as ge and dge at the
end of words, and sometimes spelt as g
elsewhere in words before e, i and y
The /s/ sound spelt c before e, i and y
The /n/ sound spelt kn and (less often) gn at
the beginning of words
Common exception words
The /a_ɪ/ sound spelt –y at the end of words
Adding –es to nouns and verbs ending in –y
Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root
word ending in –y with a consonant before
it.
Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root
word ending in –e with a consonant before
it.
Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words
of one syllable ending in a single consonant
letter after a single vowel letter
Common exception words
The /ɹ/ sound spelt wr at the beginning of
words
The /l/ or /əl/ sound spelt –le at the end of
words
The /l/ or /əl/ sound spelt –el at the end of
words
The /l/ or /əl/ sound spelt –al at the end of
words
Words ending –il
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt a before l and ll
The /ʌ/ sound spelt o
Common exception words
The /i:/ sound spelt –ey
The /ɒ/ sound spelt a after w and qu
The / ɔ:/ sound spelt a after w
The /ʒ/ sound spelt s
Homophones and near-homophones
Common exception words
Words ending in –tion
Homophones and near-homophones
Common exception words
The possessive apostrophe (singular nouns)
Contractions
Homophones and near-homophones
Common exception words
Below are the wordlists that relate to the spelling objectives in year 2. These words
are used to teach the spelling pattern; it is not intended to be a list of words for
children to memorise.
Shakespeare and More Spelling Wordlist 7
Sounds
badge, edge, bridge, dodge, fudge
age, huge, change, charge, bulge, village
gem, giant, magic, giraffe, energy
jacket, jar, jog, join, adjust
race, ice, cell, city, fancy
knock, know, knee, gnat, gnaw
Common Exception Words
door, floor, poor, because, find, kind, mind, behind, child, children
Shakespeare and More Spelling Wordlist 8
Sounds
cry, fly, dry, try, reply, July
flies, tries, replies, copies, babies, carries
copied, copier, happier, happiest, cried, replied
hiking, hiked, hiker, nicer, nicest, shiny
patting, patted, humming, hummed, dropping, dropped, sadder
saddest, bigger, biggest, runner, runny
Common Exception Words
wild, climb, most, only, both, old, cold, gold, hold, told, every
Shakespeare and More Spelling Wordlist 9
Regular Spellings
write, written, wrote, wrong, wrap
table, apple, bottle, little, middle
camel, tunnel, squirrel, travel, towel, tinsel
metal, pedal, capital, hospital, animal
pencil, fossil, nostril
all, ball, call, walk, talk, always
other, mother, brother, nothing, Monday
Common Exception Words
everybody, even, great, break, steak, pretty, class, grass, pass,
plant, path
Shakespeare and More Spelling Wordlist 10
Regular Spellings
key, donkey, monkey, chimney, valley
want, watch, wander, quantity, squash
word, work, worm, world, worth
war, warm, towards
television, treasure, usual
bare, bear
one, won
sun, son
to, too, two
be, bee
blue, blew
night, knight
Common Exception Words
could, should, would, who, whole, any, many, clothes, busy,
people
Shakespeare and More Spelling Wordlist 11
Regular Spellings
station, fiction, motion, national, section
there, their, they’re
here, hear
quite, quiet
see, sea
Common Exception Words
after, fast, last, past, father, bath, hour, move, prove, improve
sure, sugar, eye, water, again, half, money, Mr, Mrs, parents
Christmas, beautiful
Shakespeare and More Spelling Wordlist 12
Regular Spellings
Can’t, won’t, didn’t, couldn’t, it’s, I’ll
the girl’s, the boy’s, Katie’s, Ahmed’s, the child’s, the man’s
Common Exception Words
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