Year 2 Homework – Term 1 – (Week 1-5)

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Reading Eggs -
Week / English / Spelling / Mathematics / Science
1 / Poetry
From a poem you are familiar with, what are some of its features (eg: rhyming, rhythmic patterns). Write a selection of your poem. / Consonants and vowels
Circle the consonants blue and the vowels red / - List the Five days of the week in order
- What are the last two days of the week called
- List the twelve months of the year
- List each season and which month starts each of the seasons. / Material Properties and Uses
List some of the properties and uses of the following materials?
- Leather
- Metal
- Paper
- Fabric
2 / Give a definition for:
- common nouns
- proper nouns / Sounds in Words
Write a number under each sound (not letter) you hear in your words
Eg:
i n - s i n- c er e
1 2 1 23 1 1 / - Draw a picture to illustrate 7 groups of ten.
- What number is the total of all these groups?
3 / Rhythm is the strong regular repeated pattern of sound. A syllable is a unit of sound within a word. Why do you think these are important in a poem? / Place a dot between your syllable breaks of your spelling words
Eg: was●n’t / Complete the following sequences:
- 2, 4, ...... 16, 18
- 5, 10, ..... 55, 60
- 10, ..... 100 / Water Resistance
What does water resistance mean?
List some materials which display water resistant properties
4 / Write out a short poem you are familiar with.
Identify the nouns and the noun groups. / Expanded sentences – make your sentences more detailed / Solve the following, show your workings:
- 5 + ? = 11
- ? – 9 = 9
- 3 + 12 = ?
5 / What is the difference between volume and pace, when you are reading a poem out loud? / Alphabetical Order
Write your spelling words in alphabetical order. / Estimate which item might be longer, were you correct?
- Your homework book or a tissue box?
-Your backpack or your school shirt?
- Your school desk or your library bag?
Online Learning / Spelling City
/ Study Ladder

Year 2 Unit 1 Spelling overview
Lesson concepts / Week / Focus
Spelling knowledge – Visual (V), Phonological (P), Morphemic (M), Etymological (E) / Suggested spelling words
CORE WORDS OPTIONAL WORDS / Weekly overview / Resources
Spelling — Digraphs, long vowels, blends, silent letters
Spelling — Morphemes and syllabification to break up simple words
Spelling — Irregular words
Sounds of language — Silent letters, vowel/consonant digraphs, less common sound-letter combinations / 1 / Diagnostic assessment
V P M / N/A /
  • school-based diagnostic spelling assessment
  • word sort introduction
/ Website — C2C Spelling Curriculum into the classroom (C2C) — Spelling P–10
Text — Bear, Donald. R; Invernizzi, Marcia; Templeton, Shane; Johnstone, Francine, 2012, Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, 5th edn, Pearson, Boston
Text — Hornsby, D; Wilson, L, 2011, Teaching phonics in context, Pearson, Australia
Text — Hill, Susan, 2012, Developing early literacy: Assessment and teaching, 2ndedn, Eleanor Curtain Publishing, Australia
SLR — Strategies to support the four spelling knowledges
2 / Final blends — ‘nd’, ‘nk’, ‘nt’ and ‘mp’
P / send
wind
hand / bank
drink
went / plant
jump / stamp
lamp /
  • pre-test
  • word sort
  • onset and rime activities
  • post-test

3 / Diphthongs ‘ou’ and ‘ow’
VP / our
out
round / about
house
now / how
down / brown
town /
  • pre-test
  • word sort
  • word frames
  • Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check
  • post-test

4 / Long /e/ — ‘e’, ‘ee’, ‘ea’ and ‘y’
P / behind
between
because / need
meet
teach / read
busy / family
story /
  • pre-test
  • word sort
  • word frames
  • Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check
  • post-test

5 / Long /a/ — ‘a’, ‘ai’, ‘a_e’ and ‘ay’
P / April
sail
ate / made
Sunday Monday / Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday / Friday
Saturday /
  • pre-test
  • word sort
  • word frames
  • Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check
  • post-test