Spelling resources to teach the statutory requirements in Appendix 1 of the English curriculum: COMMON EXCEPTION WORDS POWERPOINT RESOURCES: The following PowerPoint lessons contain groups of words with similar spellings. Each grapheme-phoneme correspondence that is new to the children (depending upon phonics programme used) is introduced and explained. The children then are given opportunities to read and then write the words. CEW 1 – door poor floor CEW 2 – find kind mind etc CEW 3 – most only both etc CEW 4 – after fast last CEW 5 – every, everybody, even CEW 6 –great break steak CEW 7 –move prove improve CEW 8 – sure sugar CEW 9 - who whole CEW 10 - any many CEW 11 - could would should The following PowerPoint lessons contain individual common exception words. There are examples of different strategies the children can use for remembering how to spell the words, such as using mnemonics, saying the word as it is spelt, using the look write cover check method and highlighting the tricky part. Each strategy is demonstrated visually. CEW Spelling strategies PEOPLE CEW Spelling strategies BEAUTIFUL CEW Spelling strategies AGAIN CEW Spelling strategies BECAUSE CEW Spelling strategies BUSY CEW Spelling strategies CHRISTMAS CEW Spelling strategies CLOTHES CEW Spelling strategies EYE CEW Spelling strategies HALF CEW Spelling strategies HOUR CEW Spelling strategies MR & MRS CEW Spelling strategies PARENTS CEW Spelling strategies PRETTY CEW Spelling strategies WATER WORKSHEETS: Spelling activity sheets - A variety of pdf sheets that can be used for different spelling activities. They include: Acrostic poems Bubble words Colourful words Cut out words Look write cover check spelling sheet Rainbow spellings Shape words Silly Sentences Spelling with both hands Stories with spellings Word search with spellings Words in words Writing a poem Writing fun TEACHER RESOURCES Y2 Spelling Appendix planning - Common Exception Words: An adaptable outline plan Word List - With relevant words

Resources to teach a variety of homophones and near homophones POWERPOINT Introduction to homophones: Explains why the English language has so many homophones Year 2 Homophones with pictures: Includes be/bee, been/been, bare/bear, blew/blue, for/four, here/hear, knew/new, night/knight, know/no, one/won, pair/pear, plain/plane, quite/quiet, red/read, right/write, sea/see, where/wear, so/sew/saw, some/sum, son/sun, tail/tale, their/they're/there, through/threw, to/too/two, week/weak and which/witch Writing sentences with homophones: Activity for sentence writing The following powerpoints look at individual pairs/trios of homophones, explaining the differences, and giving sentences at the end to choose which one is the correct word: Homophones they're their there Homophones hear and here Homophones son and sun Homophones to two and too Homophones be and bee ACTIVITIES Homophone cards with pictures Homophone cards (just words) TEACHER RESOURCES Y2 Spelling Appendix: An adaptable outline plan Word List - With relevant words

Resources to teach the spelling rules for words ending in tion POWERPOINT Words ending tion: Introduction to the 'shun' sound spelt tion as the most common spelling, with a spelling activity. ACTIVITIES Word wheel: making words ending in tion Word search: Words ending in tion Although every effort has been made to check wordsearches for unintentional inappropriate words, it is recommended that teachers double check them before giving to children. TEACHER RESOURCES Y2 Spelling Appendix Words ending in tion: An adaptable outline plan Word List - With relevant words

POWERPOINT Apostrophes for possession: Explains how to use them, and gives sentences to reword, using apostrophes for possession. ACTIVITY Worksheet - Possessive apostrophes DISPLAY Single possessive apostrophes posters TEACHER RESOURCES Y2 Spelling Appendix - Possesive apostrophes: An adaptable outline plan

Resources to teach the spelling rules for: The use of apostrophes in contractions POWERPOINT Introduction to contractions: Explains what contractions are and shows examples of them in newspaper headlines. It then demonstrates how different contractions are formed. It ends with an oral activity for the children to say the long form of the contraction in each sentence. Writing contractions: A writing activity where the children have to change the words into contractions Changing contractions to the full form: As above, but the other way round Its or it’s: Explains the differences, with sentences for the children to guess which is correct Your or you’re: As above ACTIVITIES Cards - Sentences with contractions: The children can rewrite them in the long form Cards - Contractions snap Show me cards - its or it’s Show me cards - your or you’re Worksheet - Change the words into contractions Worksheet - Change the contractions into the long form Worksheet - Complete the contraction matrix Worksheet - Find the contractions in the story Newspaper report TEACHER RESOURCES Y2 Spelling Appendix planning - Contractions: An adaptable outline plan Word List - With relevant contractions

The powerpoint introduces the phoneme zh as s and gives examples of words and pictures. At the end there is an opportunity for the children to spell the words. The pack also includes a word list, worksheet and outline planning.

A set of resources looking at the spelling guidelines for: The /ɒ/ sound spelt a after w and qu The /ɜ:/ sound spelt or after w The /ɔ:/ sound spelt ar after w There is a powerpoint for each sound, a bingo game containing all the spellings, plus a word list and outline plan.

A powerpoint lesson looking at words such as key, monkey, donkey etc. The pack also includes a word list, wordsearch, crossword and outline planning.

A powerpoint lesson looking at words such as other, mother, brother or nothing. The pack also includes a word list, wordsearch, word cards and outline planning.

A set of resources to teach children that the /ɔ:/ sound (‘or’) is usually spelt as a before l and ll.

A powerpoint looking at the rules learnt so far for adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters.

Resources to teach the spelling rules for: Adding ing, ed, er, est and y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter POWERPOINTS Adding suffixes to one syllable cvc words: Explains what a root word and a suffix is, and shows the addition of -ed and -ing, explaining the spelling rule, and the rule for words ending in c and x. It ends with a quick write activity to add ing or ed and er, est or y to different root words. Quick write - Adding ed and doubling Quick write - Adding ing and doubling Recap of the three suffix rules (includes adding suffixes to words ending in y following a consonant, and words ending in e following a consonant, plus the doubling rule) Quick write activities show firstly the the root word, then how it changes/stays the same when the suffixes are added. ACTIVITIES Words ending in a consonant then e matrix: to fill in TEACHER RESOURCES Y2 Spelling Appendix: Adding suffixes and doubling: An adaptable outline plan Word List - With relevant words

Resources to teach the spelling rules for: Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root word ending in –e with a consonant before it POWERPOINTS Adding suffixes to words ending in e: Explains what a root word and a suffix is, and shows the addition of -ed and -ing, explaining the spelling rule. It ends with an activity to add ing or ed and er, est or y to different root words. Quick write - Adding ed to verbs ending in e Quick write - Adding ing to verbs ending in e Quick write - Adding er to words ending in e Quick write - Adding est to words ending in e Quick write - Adding y to words ending in e Quick write activities show firstly the the root word, then how it changes/stays the same when the suffixes are added. ACTIVITIES Words ending in a consonant then e matrix: to fill in TEACHER RESOURCES Y2 Spelling Appendix: Adding suffixes to words ending in e: An adaptable outline plan Word List - With relevant words ending in e with a consonant before it

3 powerpoint lessons looking at how to add -es to nouns and verbs, with activities, planning and word list. ADDING -ES TO NOUNS: POWERPOINTS Adding es to nouns ending in y Plurals recap - adding es ACTIVITIES Adding es to nouns ending in y worksheet Singular and plural cards ADDING -ES TO VERBS: POWERPOINT Adding es to verbs ending in y ACTIVITIES Adding es to verbs ending in y worksheet TEACHER RESOURCES Y2 Spelling Appendix: Adding es to nouns and verbs ending in y- An adaptable outline plan Word List - With relevant words ending in y.

A powerpoint lesson, word list, planninag and activities to teach the /aɪ/ sound spelt –y at the end of words

Resources to teach the spelling rule: The /l/ or /əl/ sound spelt le, el, al and il at the end of words WORDS ENDING IN LE: POWERPOINT Le at the end of words: A short powerpoint with 18 common words to read ending in le. ACTIVITIES Cards containing words ending in le - 45 word cards to play games Wordsearch - le words WORDS ENDING IN EL: POWERPOINT El at the end of words: A short powerpoint explaining that this spelling is not as common as le, but is usually found after m, n, r, v, w, and s. It displays 12 common words to read ending in el. ACTIVITIES Cards containing words ending in le - 27 word cards to play games Wordsearch - el words WORDS ENDING IN AL: POWERPOINT Al at the end of words: A short powerpoint explaining that not many nouns end in al, but many adjectives do. It displays 16 common words to read ending in al. ACTIVITES Cards containing words ending in al - 27 word cards to play games Wordsearch - el words WORDS ENDING IN IL: POWERPOINT IL at the end of words: A short powerpoint explaining that not many words end in il. It displays 9common words to read ending in il. ACTIVITES Cards containing words ending in al - 27 word cards to play games Wordsearch - el words ALL SPELLINGS OF THE /L/ SOUND POWERPOINT Which 'l' sound to use - shows all four spellings, with 22 words for the children to find which spelling is correct. It points out that the most common spelling is le. ACTIVITIES Loop cards containing pictures and all 4 spellings of the /l/ sound. Although every effort has been made to check wordsearches for unintentional inappropriate words, it is recommended that teachers double check them before giving to children. TEACHER RESOURCES Word list Planning - An adaptable outline plan of the resources included and objectives

A set of resources looking at words beginning with wr. POWERPOINT: Explains the spelling and gives examples for the children to read. Then there is a spelling activity, using a look, hide and check format BINGO: Wr words CARDS: Matching cards with words and pictures CROSSWORD: wr words PRACTICE SHEET: Writing words beginning with wr spelling sheet WORDSEARCH: wr words WORD DOCUMENTS: Lists of words and a planning document.

A set of resources looking at the /n/ sound spelt kn and gn at the beginning of words. POWERPOINT: Explains the spelling and gives a short explanation of why these types of word exist, then gives examples for the children to read. Then there is a spelling activity, using a look, hide and check format BINGO: Two sets, kn words and kn and gn words CARDS: Matching cards with words and pictures WORDSEARCH: kn words WORD DOCUMENTS: Lists of words and a planning document.

A set of resources to teach the spelling rule: The /s/ sound spelt c before e, i and y: THE 'S' SOUND CE POWERPOINT - Explains the spelling and states the rule, and gives examples for the children to read. Then there is a spelling activity, using a look, hide, check activity WORKSHEET - to practise spelling ce words and use them in a sentence CARDS - Matching cards with words and pictures THE 'S' SOUND CI POWERPOINT - Explains the spelling and states the rule, and gives examples for the children to read. Then there is a spelling activity, using a look, hide, check activity WORKSHEET - to practise spelling ci words and use them in a sentence CARDS - Matching cards with words and pictures THE 'S' SOUND CY POWERPOINT - Explains the spelling and states the rule, and gives examples for the children to read. Then there is a spelling activity, using a look, hide, check activity WORKSHEET - to practise spelling cy words and use them in a sentence CARDS - Matching cards with words and pictures WORD DOCUMENTS PLANNING - Y2 Spelling Appendix: The 's' sound planning WORD LIST - Lists of ce ci and cy words

A set of resources to teach the spelling rule: The /dʒ/ sound spelt as ge and dge at the end of words and sometimes spelt as g elsewhere in words before e, i and y