Year 2 English Bundles

All bundles have 12 months access from date of purchase and details of 'Common Tricky Word' and 'homophone' spellings.

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Unless there is only one tutorial, each bundle (excluding genre writing) will have an ‘end-of-topic’ assessment. You may like to complete this at the start and end of the bundle to see how much your child has grown in confidence and ability.

Tutorials are all taken from our main Curriculum Steps Programme so the PDF week numbers and spellings relate to this programme.

  • How to improve phonics, spelling and handwriting

    Recognising and reading all main digraphs (e.g. ou, ai) and trigraphs (e.g. igh, air)

    Using spelling rules, patterns and rhyme to help support spelling of words phonetically

    Activities to support and strengthen spelling including dictation

    Handwriting – forming each letter correctly using letter groups to improve handwriting

  • How to create more complex and interesting sentences

    Learning word terms (noun, adjective, verb and adverb) and using these in writing

    How to create noun phrases

    How to use commas in a list

    Increasing accuracy with the use of capital letters and full stops

    Using conjunctions to extend sentences

    Varying sentence starts

    Creating descriptive writing and extending sentences using noun phrases, conjunctions and a variety of sentence starts

    Understanding and using different types of sentences

    When to use question marks and exclamation marks

  • How to spell plurals and using suffixes

    Plural spellings and rules

    Past tense – adding the ed suffix

    Adding suffixes ing, er, ed, est, y and spelling rules and patterns

    Adding suffixes ful, ness, ment and spelling rules and patterns

  • How to use apostrophes

    What is an apostrophe?

    What does it look like?

    Show how two words can become one (contracted apostrophes)

    Apostrophes for missing letter(s) (e.g. wouldn’t, can’t)

    Apostrophes for possession and when and how to use these (e.g. Samuel’s, Dad’s)

  • How to create poems

    Creating and writing poems using a range of poetry formats

    Developing and exploring vocabulary for poetry writing

    Creating an anthology of poetry and performing poetry

  • How to write stories and non-fiction texts

    Planning, writing and editing a story

    Using mind maps to plan non-fiction writing and writing a structured non-fiction text

    Writing a letter and understanding the format for letter writing

    Writing instructions and understanding the sentence structure and format of instruction writing