This Year 2 common exception word (CEW) pack allows pupils to practise reading and spelling a selection of the 64 tricky words.
Each worksheet includes two or three words for Key Stage 1 pupils to read, spell and understand, with an opportunity to develop letter formation using handwriting line guides.
Common exception words included in this pack are:
- any, many
- because, again
- great, steak, break
- parents, Christmas
- pretty, beautiful
This KS1 resource pack includes 6 PDF worksheets – one for each of the five groups of common exception words above, and an answer sheet.
Activities include
- Explaining makes the words tricky to read and spell
- Finding the words in sentences
- Copying the words out in their own handwriting
- Unscrambling the words
- Putting the correct word into each sentence
- Writing their own sentences for each word
What are common exception words?
Common exception words are words which don’t follow the common rules of spelling, or which use letter combinations to represent sounds in an uncommon way.
- door
- floor
- poor
- because
- find
- kind
- mind
- behind
- child
- wild
- climb
- most
- only
- both
- old
- cold
- gold
- hold
- told
- every
- everybody
- even
- great
- break
- steak
- pretty
- beautiful
- after
- fast
- last
- past
- father
- class
- grass
- pass
- plant
- path
- bath
- hour
- move
- prove
- improve
- sure
- sugar
- eye
- could
- should
- would
- who
- whole
- any
- many
- clothes
- busy
- people
- water
- again
- half
- money
- Mr
- Mrs
- parents
- Christmas
National Curriculum English programme of study links
read further common exception words, noting unusual correspondences between spelling and sound and where these occur in the word
spell common exception words
write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the GPCs, common exception words and punctuation taught so far