Spellings in Year 2

[madasamarchhare]

My daughter goes to a school where they receive very little by way of spellings for homework. She can spell very well and is always keen for me to give her words to try. I want to encourage this while she is so interested but am running out of ideas for words to give her. She can do all days of the week, months of the year and colours. Does anyone have any ideas of other groups of words I could give her or words your Year 2's are being given.
TIA

[lovecheese]

Pre-fixes and suffixes, ied, ly, ous, ious, anti, dis, ex; that sort of thing. Random spelling lists are not really gonna help that much, don't know what others think; what is important is that she can understand a spelling rule and why, and apply it in her written work. (Not a teacher BTW, mum of a yr2 DD who is very good at spelling

[SarkyLady]

Find her some easy crosswords.

More fun than spelling lists.

[SarkyLady]

Or play scrabble.

[FlorenceMattell]

If she is good at spelling she doesnt need to be tested imo.
Get a life, take her to the park, bake a cake, be a mother!
Hot housing children doesnt work, they grow up to be unable to think for themsleves.

[lovecheese]

Bit harsh Florence, if the OP's DD enjoys doing spellings then let her do spellings. Sure she bakes cakes and goes to the park too.

[pantaloons]

My yr2 dd had homophones (I think) this week. Things like pear & pair, I'll & aisle, through & threw etc. It was as much about remembering the right meanings as the spellings, and although she normally does well she found them really tricky.

[hocuspontas]

I think schools think there is little value in spelling lists because children can get them all right but forget them when they come to their written work!

The Times spelling bee is great fun.

[MillsAndDoom]

This is DDs list for this week:

friends
know
over
ceiling
their
January
Saturday
what
school

She likes doing wordsearches which (a teacher friend told me) is a really good way of helping them with their spelling

[madasamarchhare]

Thank you. Some great ideas here and wordsearches are a fave of hers. And yes we do bake cakes, go to the park, play games together, plant flowers etc etc this is just something else she likes to do.

[Mashabell]

U can find loads of regularly spelt words on the Learning to Read page and all common words which have some tricky letters on the other pages at //www.EnglishSpellingProblems.co.uk but below are the 300 most used English words with regular and irregular spellings:
Spellings for some sounds (ee, short and long oo and oa/o-e) have so many exceptions that they don?t really have a pattern. They need to be learned one by one and so I am listing those first.

been feet green keep need queen see sleep three tree trees -
even here these - each eat please sea tea - be he he?s me she we we?re - people - key -
could couldn?t would - book good look looked looking looks took - pulled put -
food room school soon too - do into to - two who - through -
home over clothes going - boat - cold old told - only don?t most oh -
go no so - grow know snow window -

a am an and as at back bad began can cat dad gran grandad
had has hat have magic man ran sat than that that?s

• animals dragon (without doubled consonants as in ?granny, stagger?) -
  

baby came gave made make place take - again - great -
away day may play say way - they -
car dark garden hard park - are - laughed - after asked can?t fast last plants -
air - where there there?s - their - bear
because ? saw - all called small - water - thought -

the bed best end get help her let let?s new next red them then went when yes -
said - head - friends - every everyone were -
better eggs fell tell well -
any many - ready - very ever never (no doubled consonants)

big children did didn?t different fish him his if in is it it?s its king little miss still thing things think this which will wind wish with - live lived river
birds first girl - work -
inside like liked cried time while, I?ve - by fly my why -
eyes - find I I?ll I?m - night right -

across along box dog floppy fox from got hot
long lots not of off on stop stopped top - gone - want wanted was what
or for horse morning - before more - your door -
but duck fun jumped just much mum must run sun under up us another - come (coming) mother other one some something - once
use - you
about around found house mouse our out round shouted - down town - how now
Oddments: boy Mr Mrs giant suddenly

[madasamarchhare]

Love cheese and mashabell thank you. Just what I was after. This will keep her going I think. Lots of great ideas and I'm sure she'll love the times spelling bee we will certainly give that a try.

[DeWe]

DD2 (also year 2) often has a list connected to their topic. They get a list of a lot of words in 3 groups. They can choose to learn one or all groups. Group one has words like "awake, diet, hedgehog, nocturnal" Group 2 "carnivore, moonlight, predator" Group 3 "camouflage, hibernate, vixen".
Heck I'm having problems with some of them. but she loves spellings so will choose to do most of them.

[sarahfreck]

Make your own wordsearches easily here:
worksheetgenius.com/html/word_searches.php

[maizieD]

I do not understand how wordsearches help children with spelling (or with anything at all, come to that...).

The best way to improve spelling is to do it.

[amidaiwish]

DD1 (y2) has a spelling test every week. she always gets them right. however not always right in her written work. weird.

[Mashabell]

Amidaiwish,
That happens with many children. For spelling tests children have to concentrate just on spelling, but for writing a story or description there are many other things to get right: words, grammar, punctuation. So to keep an eye on 'correct' spelling is harder.

That's also why many schools don't use spelling tests. That and also because they are a nice pat on the back only for children who learn to spell easily. Most children find learning to spell hard - because English spelling is so often illogical and memory-dependent: speak - speech, sea - see, there - their.

So it's good to encourage children who find spelling easy to keep learning, like u would a child with musical or sporting ability, but to be gentle with those who find spelling hard. It is a real nightmare for some children, and not nearly as important as learning to read anyway.