Y2

Spelling

Baseline Assessment 2

Assessment
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Looking for an easy-to-use baseline assessment to support teaching Year 2 spellings? Have a look at our Year 2 Spelling Baseline Assessment covering the domains for Digraphs, Trigraphs, words endging in y, ph, wh, un prefixes, compound words. This Year 2 spelling assessment pack also includes a teacher guide containing a script and further information for using this resource.

This baseline assessment covers the following spelling domains and you can also find further resource activity packs on our website to support your teaching of the spelling domains covered in this baseline assessment.

  • S8 – Recap - Digraphs

  • S8 – Recap - Digraphs and trigraphs

  • S9 – Recap - Words ending in y

  • S10 - Recap - ph, wh, un prefix

  • S12 - Recap - compound words

  • S14 – The /d?/ sound spelt as –ge and –dge at the end of words, and sometimes spelt as g elsewhere in words before e, i and y

  • S15 – /s/ sound spelt c before e, I and y and common exception words


Curriculum Objectives

  • vowel digraphs and trigraphs: ai, oi, ay, oy, a–e, e–e, i–e, o–e, u–e, ar, ee, ea (/i:/), ea (/ɛ/), er (/ɜ:/), er (/ə/), ir, ur, oo (/u:/), oo(/ʊ/), oa, oe, ou, ow (/aʊ/), ow (/əʊ/), ue, ew, ie (/aɪ/), ie (/i:/), igh, or, ore, aw, au, air, ear, ear (/ɛə/), are (/ɛə/)
  • words ending in –y (/i:/ or /ɪ/)
  • new consonant spellings ph and wh
  • compound words
  • the /dʒ/ sound spelt as –ge and –dge at the end of words, and sometimes spelt as g elsewhere in words before e, i and y
  • the /s/ sound spelt c before e, i and y