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Spelling lists
Information for Parents/Carers
These lists of words have been chosen from the new National Curriculum. Once a week your child will bring home a list of words to
learn for a test the following week. Please spend a few minutes each day with them, going through the words so that they know how
to spell them by the time of the test.
For some children, it may be appropriate for them to learn words from a higher or lower year group if those word lists are more
suitable. If this is the case for your child, please do not worry that they are behind, but help them with the words that they need to
learn. With your support and with regular practice they will improve.
Please keep this list safe so that you know what words your child has each week. This information will also be available to
download on the school website in case you lose this sheet.
When helping your child learn their spelling it is important that they learn the spelling rule as well as the words themselves so that
they can apply the rule to other words. Children will record their spelling scores in their homework book so that you can keep a
check on how they are doing.
Spelling activities
Here are some ideas to help your child learn his/her spellings:
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Use the LOOK, COVER, WRITE CHECK approach to practice the spellings
Look for words within words
Put the words into sentences
Practice handwriting by writing out the spellings
Identify words in reading books with the same/similar patterns
Make word cards and stick them around the house
Make a word search using your spellings
Air spelling – using your index finger, write the word slowly in the air saying each letter as you ‘write’ it
Missing letters – mums and dads write out the spellings with some letters missing. Children try to fill in the missing
letters.
Spelling lists – Y2
Spelling lists
Year 2
Week 1
Topic Words
wires
electricity
bulb
buzzer
circuit
battery
switch
light
socket
plug
Week 2
Topic Words
ocean
continent
England
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
London
Edinburgh
Cardiff
Belfast
Week 3
Common exception words
child
children
wild
old
cold
gold
hold
told
sold
gold
Week 4
Common exception words
every
everybody
even great
father
door
floor
poor
only
both
Week 5
Common exception words
fast
last
past
class
grass
pass
mass
blast
mast
past
Week 6
Common exception words
break
steak
pretty
beautiful
after
eye
because
climb
most
host
Week 7
Common exception words
plant
path
bath
sure
sugar
hour
find
kind
mind
behind
Week 8
Common exception words
move
prove
improve
could
should
would
busy
school
house
friend
Week 9
Common exception words
who
whole
Christmas
any
many
clothes
knife
knives
leaf
leaves
Week 10
Common exception words
Week 11
The /j/ sound spelt as ge
and dge at the end of
words, and sometimes spelt
as g elsewhere in words
before e, i and y badge
e dge
bridge
dodge
fudge
badger
knowledge
hedge
smudge
wedge
Week 12
The /j/ sound spelt as ge
and dge at the end of
words, and sometimes spelt
as g elsewhere in words
before e, i and y
hinge
age
huge
change
charge
stage
village
rage
cage
binge
Week 15
The /n/ sound spelt kn and
(less often) gn at the beginning
of words
Week 16
The /r/ sound spelt wr at the
beginning of words
Week 13
The /j/ sound spelt as ge
and dge at the end of
words, and sometimes spelt
as g elsewhere in words
before e, i and y gem
giant
magic
giraffe
energy
angel
engine
gentle
digit
imagine
genius
water
again
half
halves
money
Mr.
Mrs.
parents
people
paper
Week 14
The /s/ sound spelt c
before e, i and y
race
ice
cell
city
fancy
face
lace
circle
cycle
pencil
knock
know
knee
gnat
gnaw
know
knot
knife
knuckle
gnarled
Spelling lists – Y2
write
written
wrote
wrong
wrap
wrath
wrestle
wreck
wriggly
wrist
Spelling lists
Week 17
The /l/ sound spelt –le at
the
end of words
table
apple
bottle
little
middle
fiddle
puddle
muddle
stable
ankle
Week 21
The /i/ sound spelt –y at
the end of words
cry
fly
dry
try
reply
July
shy
apply
deny
supply
Week 25
Adding the endings –ing, –
ed, –er, –est and –y to words
ending in vowel- letter–
consonant-letter–e
hiking
hiked
hiker
nicer
nicest
shiny
waved
waving
ride
riding
Week 18
The /l/ sound spelt –el at
the end of words
Week 19
The /l/ or sound spelt –al at
the end of words
camel
tunnel
squirrel
tinsel
travel
towel
angel
jewel
cancel
kneel
metal
pedal
capital
hospital
animal
local
deal
total
goal
royal
Week 22
Adding –es to nouns and
verbs ending in consonantletter–y
flies
tries
replies
copies
babies
carries
dries
studies
cries
Week 26
Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est
and –y to words of one
syllable ending in a
single consonant letter after
a single vowel letter
patting
patted
humming
hummed
dropping
dropped
batting
batted
flapped
flapping
Week 29
The /)/ sound spelt o
Week 30
The /ee/ sound spelt –ey
other
mother
brother
nothing
Monday
something
love
come
from
dove
key
donkey
monkey
chimney
valley
abbey
attorney
hockey
journey
money
Week 23
Adding –ed, –ing, –er and
–est to root words ending in
consonant-letter–y
cried
crying
replied
replying
copied
copying
studied
studying
carried
carrying
Week 27
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
fatter
fattest
runner
runny
hotter
hottest
sweeter
sweetest
Week 20
Words ending –il
pencil
fossil
nostril
boil
mail
The /&/ sound spelt s
television
treasure
usual
Week 24
Adding –ed, –ing, –er and
–est to root words ending in
consonant-letter–y
happier
happiest
sillier
silliest
shyer
shiest
funnier
funniest
grumpier
grumpies
t
Week 28
The /or/ sound spelt a
before l and ll
all
ball
call
walk
talk
always
fall
wall
altogether
alto
Week 31
The /o/ sound spelt a after w
and qu
Week 32
The /er/ sound spelt or
after w
want
watch
wander
quantity
squash
squander
squat
quality
quarter
squad
word
work
worm
world
worth
worse
worship
worthy
worthless
Spelling lists – Y2
Spelling lists
Week 33
The suffixes –ment, –ness,
–ful and – Less
enjoyment
sadness
careful
playful
hopeless
plainness
happiness
amazement
penniless
sorrowful
Week 34
Contractions
Week 35
Words ending in –tion
can’t
didn’t
hasn’t
couldn’t
it’s
I’ll
Don’t
We’ll
She’ll
Shouldn’t
station
fiction
motion
section
satisfaction
nation
traction
fraction
action
competition
Spelling lists – Y2
Week 36
Homophones and nearhomophones
there/their/they’re
here/hear
quite/quiet
pear/pair
spear/spare
fear/fare
it’s/its
accept/except
brake/break
night/knight
Spelling lists
Week 37
Homophones and nearhomophones
Week 38
Homophones and nearhomophones
see/sea
bare/bear
one/won
sun/son
two/to
quite/quiet
main/mane
ball/bawl
affect/effect
to/too/two
be/bee
blue/blew
night/knight
spare/spear
flue/flew
soar/sore
four/for
Spelling lists – Y2