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Humanities (History / geography)
Spelling
Year 2 National Curriculum requirements
Pupils should be taught to
- develop a range of personal strategies for learning new and irregular words*
- develop a range of personal strategies for spelling at the point of composition*
- develop a range of strategies for checking and proofreading spellings after writing*
Pupils should be taught to spell by
- segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly
- learning new ways of spelling phonemes for which one or more spellings are
- already known, and learning 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
- adding suffixes to spell longer words, for example, ‘-ment’, ‘-ful’, ‘-less’, ‘-ly’
- writing from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words
- using the GPCs, common exception words and punctuation taught so far.
Common exception words for Year 2
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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 |
hour move prove improve sure sugar eye could should would who father class grass pass plant |
path bath whole any many clothes busy people water again half money Mr Mrs parents Christmas |