Spellings
Children have spellings sent home weekly - we provide ideas to help make these fun!
By the end of Year 2 children should know all of the words listed in the ‘Year 2 section’ below.
If your little person has achieved this goal before the end of the year, please get cracking on the Year 3 Common Exception words!
Year 2 Common Exception Words | |||
door | gold | plant | clothes |
floor | hold | path | busy |
poor | told | bath | people |
because | every | hour | water |
find | great | move | again |
kind | break | prove | half |
mind | steak | improve | money |
behind | pretty | sure | Mr |
child | beautiful | sugar | Mrs |
children | after | eye | parents |
wild | fast | could | Christmas |
climb | last | should | everybody |
most | past | world | even |
only | father | who |
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both | class | whole |
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old | grass | any |
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cold | pass | many |
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Common Contractions | |
should have | should’ve |
do not | don’t |
can not | can’t |
it is | it’s |
should not | shouldn’t |
could not | couldn’t |
I am | I’m |
I will | I’ll |
she is | she’s |
does not | doesn’t |
was not | wasn’t |
they are | they’re |
we are | we’re |
would have | would’ve |
he would | he’d |
would not | wouldn’t |
had not | hadn’t |
you have | you’ve |
they will | they’ll |
let us | let’s |