Year 2 English skills () « back to years
The skills below are 100% aligned with Australian and New Zealand school curriculum and up to
90%+
with common core english. Skills are organized into groups
and are ordered in a way we think would be useful. To master a skill, you will have to gain 10
stars
(In case of a classroom initiated time-bound practise session, the time you can practise and the
skill level is determined by your teacher).
There are 3 levels to each skill,
- Easy: A star will be taken away if you get 3 consecutive wrong answers.
- Medium: A star will be taken away if you get 2 consecutive wrong answers.
- Hard: A star will be taken away on each wrong answer.
Most skills have multiple type of questions with varying difficulties. If you keep getting wrong
answers, system may give you the simplest of question to answer. Idea is to
have
you master these skills with a ground up approach.
If you get an answer wrong, you can read the solution and helpful tips that briefly explain the skill/topic you are practising.
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Important:
Year 2 skills are currently in beta. If you see any issues, please report them so they get fixed to give you better experience.
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
a
and longa
words to pictures - Match the short
e
and longe
words to pictures - Choose the short
i
or longi
word that matches the picture - Choose the short
o
or longo
word that matches the picture - Choose the short
u
or longu
word 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
a
word withsilent e, ay and ai
: spelling practice - Long
e
word withee and ea
: spelling practice - Long
i
word withsilent e, ie and y
: spelling practice - Long
o
word withsilent e, oa and ow
: spelling practice - Long
u
word 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
g
or softc
word - Spell the soft
c & g
words - 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