In exception words, the English spelling code works in an unusual / uncommon way. Use these flashcards to help your child practise writing these Y2 common exception words.
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A colourful set of printable flashcards created by a teacher to help Year 1 children learn how to spell common exception words.
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Free letter arrow cards created by an experienced educator to help children practise putting sounds together and forming some words.
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Find out what your child will learn in Year 2 English, maths and science, try out a few learning activities and read our top tips about how to support their learning and development in our free, downloadable Year 2 Taster Pack.
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Find out what your child will learn in Year 1 English, maths and science, try out a few learning activities and read our top tips about how to support their learning and development in our free, downloadable Year 1 Taster Pack.
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The Year 1 Phonics Screening Check, administered in June, tests children's knowledge of phonics with a mixture of real and nonsense words. The 2019 official past paper will show you what sort of words children are asked to read as part of the assessment.
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Help your child prepare for the English KS1 SATs, taken at the end of Year 2, with some at-home practice. These complete Y2 SATs past papers from 2019 are the official Department for Education papers used in schools.
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Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 2 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
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Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 1 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
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Identify and underline all the imperative verbs in this instruction text about making an omelette – then make and eat one yourself!
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The Year 1 Phonics Screening Check, administered in June, tests children's knowledge of phonics with a mixture of real and nonsense words. The official past paper for 2018 will show you what sort of words children are asked to read as part of the assessment.
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Help your child prepare for the English KS1 SATs, taken at the end of Year 2, with some at-home practice. These complete 2018 Y2 SATs past papers are the official papers from the Department for Education, used in schools.
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Look at all the ingredients in our compound word soup. How many different compound words can you make from them?
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Help your child write about a day out to a museum or gallery with a non-fiction report template, perfect for Year 2 learners and new writers.
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English, maths and science have a very chocolatey taste over the Easter break, with lots of maths, phonics, spelling and simple science investigations to keep chocolate-hunters busy and learning.
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Exception words or tricky words are words in which the English spelling code works in an unusual way. Have a go at this game of memory match to test your knowledge of some tricky spellings!
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The grapheme ‘ch’ is used to encode (spell) different sounds in English. Say each word aloud, then sort them into the table below.
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Let's go alien hunting! Read each word aloud and decide whether you think it is a real word or an alien word.
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A polysyllabic word is a word that has more than one syllable. Can you break these polysyllabic words down into syllables?
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There are lots of different ways of writing the /zh/ sound. Let's play mini bingo to help you learn them!
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