Year 2 English Skills () « All Years
Australian & NZ curriculum aligned. Master each skill by earning 10 stars across 3 difficulty levels.
Warm up
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Start with rhyming again
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Blending and segmenting
- Use correct initial consonant blend
- Use correct final consonant blend
- Use a consonant blend to complete the word
- Use correct digraph (ch, sh, th) to compete the word correctly
- Use correct digraph (ch, sh, th) to spell the word correctly
- Use correct digraph (ph, qu, wh) to compete the word correctly
- Use correct digraph (ph, qu, wh) to spell the word correctly
- Arrange the words by initial consonant blend or digraph
- Using a three-letter consonant blend to complete the word
- Using a three-letter consonant blend word in a sentence
- The silent letter words
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Another look at short vowels
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Short and long vowels
- Sort short and long vowel words
- Match the short
aand longawords to pictures - Match the short
eand longewords to pictures - Choose the short
ior longiword that matches the picture - Choose the short
oor longoword that matches the picture - Choose the short
uor longuword that matches the picture - Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words
- Identify if syllable is open or closed?
- Open and closed syllable word spellings
- Use the correct -ild, -ind, -old, -olt or -ost word to complete the sentence
Speed up
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Long vowels
- Choose the silent e word that matches the picture
- Complete the silent e words
- Spell the silent e word
- Choose the picture that matches the vowel digraph word
- Complete the vowel digraph words
- Choose the vowel digraph sentence that matches the picture
- Use the correct vowel team to complete a given word
- Select the word with a specific long vowel sound
- Long
aword withsilent e, ay and ai: spelling practice - Long
eword withee and ea: spelling practice - Long
iword withsilent e, ie and y: spelling practice - Long
oword withsilent e, oa and ow: spelling practice - Long
uword withsilent e, ue, oo and ew: spelling practice
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More on diphthongs: oi, oy, ou, ow
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Variant vowels
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Soft g and c words
- Match picture to the soft
gor softcword - Spell the soft
c & gwords - Select the soft g or soft c word sentence
Homophones
Affixes
Sprint
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Syllables
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Sentence structure
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Working with nouns
- Identify nouns
- Select nouns in the sentence
- Identifying common and proper nouns
- Using -s and -es for plurals
- Identify if the noun is singular or plural
- Using irregular plurals
- Working with plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- Form the possessive singular or plural
- Correct the mistakes wth plural and possessive nouns
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Working with pronouns
- Select personal pronouns in the sentence
- Using personal pronoun in place of a singular noun
- Using plural pronoun in place of the plural noun
- Using pronouns "I" and "me" with compound subjects and objects
- Select the possessive pronoun
- Using possessive pronouns
- Using reflexive pronouns
- Using suitable personal and reflexive pronoun in the sentence
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Continue with Verbs
- Which word is the helping verb
- Select the suitable subject or verb
- Pronoun-verb agreement
- Select the past tense sentence
- Which verb in the sentence shows regular past tense
- Change the verb in sentence to future tense
- Identify the irregular past tense
- Enter the correct form of the verb - V1: irregular past tense
- Which word is an irregular past tense
- Listen & focus on ending sounds: complete the word
- Identify if the sentence in the past, present or future tense?
Finish it off
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Articles
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Adjectives and adverbs
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Contractions
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Capitalisation and formatting
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Reference skills
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- Use context clues
- Sort words into categories
- Find words with related meanings
- Which word is not like the others?
- Shades of meaning
- Order related words
- Multiple meaning words
- Use prefixes and suffixes
- Find synonyms in context
- Choose the synonym
- Which sentence has the same meaning
- Choose the antonym
- Select the sentence that use an antonym
- Identify antonyms in context
- Forming compound words
- Using compound words
Word meanings