7 free vocabulary resources for Year 2: 7 worksheets. Answers included.
Word meanings, synonyms, antonyms and word building. Year 2 students count, order and add numbers to 20 and beyond, start to use place value (tens and ones), tell o'clock and half-past time and recognise coins.
Students will practise: joining two words to make a compound word; spotting compound words; splitting a compound word into two words; knowing the order of the alphabet; comparing first letters of words; putting words in alphabetical order; adding un- to the start of a word; knowing that un- means not or the opposite.
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A compound word is made when two small words join together to make one new word, like rain + bow = rainbow. Children put word pairs…
Children find the missing letter in short runs of the alphabet, choose which word comes first in ABC order and then put three words in…
Adding un- to the front of a word changes its meaning: happy becomes unhappy (not happy) and lock becomes unlock (the opposite of lock).…
Put words in alphabetical (ABC) order, first by the first letter, then by the second and third letters. Starts with the most common words…
Join two small words to make a compound word, and split compound words into their parts. Starts with the most common words and the…
Choose the word that means the same (synonym) or the opposite (antonym) to build vocabulary. Starts with the most common words and the…
Join two small words to make a compound word, and split compound words into their parts. Starts with the most common words and the…
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Word meanings, synonyms, antonyms and word building. At Year 2, our resources focus on: joining two words to make a compound word; spotting compound words; splitting a compound word into two words; knowing the order of the alphabet.
Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.
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