Deep Dive into Phonics in Year 2 with National Curriculum expectations

Target Group Teachers or Teaching assistants in Year 2

Course Content

• To segment spoken words into phonemes and to represent these with graphemes, spelling many of these words correctly and making phonically-plausible attempts at
• To recognise new ways of spelling phonemes for which one or more spellings are already known and to learn some words with each spelling, including some common homophones (e.g. bare/bear, blue/ blew, night/knight).
• To apply further Y2 spelling rules and guidance
• To spell most Y1 and Y2 common exception words
• To use prefix and suffix correctly.
• To spell more words with contracted forms, e.g. can’t, didn’t, hasn’t, couldn’t, it’s, I’ll.
• To learn the possessive singular apostrophe (e.g. the girl’s book).

To segment spoken words into phonemes and to then represent all of the phonemes using graphemes in the right order for both for single- syllable and multi-syllabic words

Trainer Information Clare Shivnan-Taylor – SLE /Phonics Lead