These PDF worksheets, covering ‘gn’ and ‘kn’ words, are an excellent way for children in Y2 to revise and practise these spelling patterns.
The worksheets include five different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context.
They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
This primary resource is divided into five sections:
- Tips
Advice and examples on when this spelling pattern should be used
- Check
Circle the words that are spelt correctly, and complete the words with parts missing
- Use
Write a sentence about each picture, including the word that is written below
- Change
Read each sentence and change the underlined word or phrase for a new word
- Apply
Write a short story about the image provided, and try to include as many of the words listed as possible
National Curriculum English programme of study links
Pupils should be taught to spell by:
- segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly
- learning new ways of spelling phonemes for which one or more spellings are already known, and learn some words with each spelling, including a few common homophones
- learning to spell common exception words
- learning to spell more words with contracted forms
- learning the possessive apostrophe (singular) [for example, the girl’s book]
- distinguishing between homophones and near-homophones
add suffixes to spell longer words, including –ment, –ness, –ful, –less, –ly
apply spelling rules and guidance, as listed in English Appendix 1