1. Year 2 Spelling and grammar
October 2016

2. These are a list of Year 2 Weekly Spelling pattern words for Autumn 1
ey/y
kn/gn y
soft c wr
oor/ore
key
knock my
race
wreck
door
donkey
know
cry
ice
write
poor
monkey
knee
fly
cell
written
floor
chimney
knit
try
city
wrote
indoor
valley
knot
dry
fancy
wrong
poorly
very
knife
reply
face
wrap
more
funny
knew
July
dice
wrist
wore
happy
knight by
mice
wrapper
shore
party
gnat
why
space
wreath
core
family
gnaw
shy
choice
wren
score

3. Spelling Ideas
There are many ways to help your child with learning spellings, which we will also be continuing with at school. -It’s important for children to start to see the pattern of letters and build the words. e.g. b ba bad badg badge -Shaving foam squirted on a tray is great fun for children to use their finger to write words. Or bath pens on the tiles at bath time. - Similarly using sand/rice/flour in a tray to write words with their finger.

4. -Children can practice forming words with magnetic letters or they can try typing them on a computer/Ipad.
-Using wool, string or ribbon to make the letters and build words on the floor can be creative.
- Children can practice by writing a letter on their partners back and write what they think the letter is on their whiteboard.
-For words that are particularly tricky to remember it is sometimes helpful to make up a silly rhyme (mnemonics) e.g. laugh (Little ants under green hedges), although not too many else it becomes too hard to remember!

5. Plurals
Children need to remember the rules for changing nouns from singular to plural. They have been taught that if a word ends in ‘ch’ ‘sh’ or ‘x’ that they add an ‘es’ to the word instead of just an ‘s’ e.g. fox – foxes church – churches brush – brushes
The children are not expected to know the irregular plurals e.g mouse - mice

6. Suffix
A suffix is a group of letters that can be added to the end of a root word. Different suffixes have different meanings so, when you add a suffix to a word, you change its meaning and make a new word.
Children are required to use words using the suffix: er, est, ness, ed, less, ful, ly
er and est add on to an adjective
er – longer , slower , quicker , smaller
est – longest, slowest, quickest, smallest
bravest, happiest, hottest (rule change)
ed and ing add on to a verb to change the tense.
ed – jumped, picked, laughed, tickled, clapped
ing- jumping, picking, laughing, tickling, clapping
Each suffix follows a rule

7. If a word ends in ‘y’ e. g. happy you drop the ‘y’ and add an ‘i’ e. g
If a word ends in ‘y’ e.g. happy you drop the ‘y’ and add an ‘i’ e.g. happier.
If a word ends in an ‘e’ e.g. late, you drop the ‘e’ before adding the suffix e.g. ’later’
If a word ends in one vowel (a,e,i,o,u) and one consonant then you double the last letter e.g. flat becomes flatter.
Children need to understand how the meaning of the word can change when they use different suffixes

8. Past tense
Children need to be able to use the present and past tense when writing, this is equally important in their speech e.g. The pearl falled (fell) to the bottom of the sea. He runned (ran) to the shop. I buyed (bought) some sweets.

9. could/should/would have not of
Standard English
We should model this and correct children when they use incorrectly. There are local phrases that children often use that are non- standard!
Can we try hard to model correctly and correct the children on the following common mistakes…
seen not sin
been not bin
could/should/would have not of -

10. Other terminology the children are expected to know and use
Homophones:
Are words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings and spellings.
bear / bare sea / see write / right
no / know through / threw
one / won blue / blew hare / hair witch / which would / wood
night / knight pear / pair
two /too / to there/ they’re / their
here / hear sun / son

11. Compound Words
Contain at least two root words E.g. whiteboard, blackbird, superman, daydream, ice-cream…
Thank you for coming, we hope you found it helpful and appreciate the expectations required by the end of year 2.
Do you have and questions?