Year 2 English
Here is a list of English skills students learn in year 2! These skills are organised into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practising, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
Consonants and vowels
Rhyming
Blending and segmenting
Consonant sounds and letters
Consonant blends and digraphs
- E.1 Complete the word with the right initial consonant blend
- E.2 Does the word start with a consonant blend?
- E.3 Complete the word with the right final consonant blend
- E.4 Does the word end with a consonant blend?
- E.5 Fill in the missing consonant blend
- E.6 Complete the word to match the picture: -ss, -ll, -ff, -zz, -ck
- E.7 Choose the correct digraph
- E.8 Complete the word with the right digraph
- E.9 Spell the digraph word
- E.10 Sort by initial consonant blend or digraph
Short vowels
- F.1 Choose the short a word that matches the picture
- F.2 Complete the short a word
- F.3 Choose the short a sentence that matches the picture
- F.4 Choose the picture that matches the short e word
- F.5 Complete the short e word
- F.6 Choose the short e sentence that matches the picture
- F.7 Choose the short i word that matches the picture
- F.8 Complete the short i words
- F.9 Choose the short i sentence that matches the picture
- F.10 Choose the short o word that matches the picture
- F.11 Complete the short o word
- F.12 Choose the short o sentence that matches the picture
- F.13 Choose the picture that matches the short u word
- F.14 Complete the short u word
- F.15 Choose the short u sentence that matches the picture
- F.16 Identify the short vowel sound in a word
- F.17 Complete the word with the right short vowel
- F.18 Spell the short vowel word
- F.19 Complete the sentence with the correct short vowel word
Short and long vowels
- G.1 Sort short and long vowel words
- G.2 Match the short a and long a words to pictures
- G.3 Match the short e and long e words to pictures
- G.4 Choose the short i or long i word that matches the picture
- G.5 Choose the short o or long o word that matches the picture
- G.6 Choose the short u or long u word that matches the picture
- G.7 Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words
Long vowels
- H.1 Choose the silent e word that matches the picture
- H.2 Complete the silent e words
- H.3 Spell the silent e word
- H.4 Choose the silent e sentence that matches the picture
- H.5 Choose the picture that matches the vowel digraph word
- H.6 Complete the vowel digraph words
- H.7 Complete the word with the right vowel digraph
- H.8 Choose the vowel digraph sentence that matches the picture
Diphthongs: oi, oy, ou, ow
Syllables
Sight words
Sentences
- L.1 Identify statements
- L.2 Identify questions
- L.3 Identify exclamations
- L.4 Identify commands
- L.5 Choose the right end mark
- L.6 Statement, question, command or exclamation?
- L.7 Who, what, when, where or why?
- L.8 Is it the naming or action part of the sentence?
- L.9 Find the complete sentences
- L.10 Complete the sentence
- L.11 Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence
Nouns
- M.1 Is the noun a person, animal, place or thing?
- M.2 Complete the sentence with a noun to match the picture
- M.3 Select the nouns
- M.4 Identify nouns in a sentence
- M.5 Sort common and proper nouns
- M.6 Identify proper nouns
- M.7 Regular plurals: select the word that matches the picture
- M.8 Form regular plurals with -s and -es
- M.9 Use singular and plural nouns
- M.10 Irregular plurals: select the word that matches the picture
- M.11 Select the possessive noun that matches the picture
- M.12 Form the singular possessive
Verbs
- O.1 Complete the sentence with an action verb to match the picture
- O.2 Identify action verbs
- O.3 Use action verbs
- O.4 One or more than one?
- O.5 Complete the sentence with the best verb
- O.6 Complete the sentence with the best subject
- O.7 Pronoun-verb agreement: Complete the sentence with the best verb
- O.8 Pronoun-verb agreement: Complete the sentence with the best subject
- O.9 Select the sentence that tells about the present
- O.10 Select the sentence that tells about the past
- O.11 Select the sentence that tells about the future
- O.12 Place sentences on a timeline
- O.13 Form and use the regular past tense
- O.14 Identify the irregular past tense
- O.15 Place sentences with irregular verbs on a timeline
- O.16 Complete the verb with the ending that you hear
- O.17 Match the -ed and -ing sentences to the pictures
- O.18 To be: use the correct present tense form
- O.19 To be: use the correct past tense form
- O.20 To be: use the correct form
- O.21 To have: use the correct form
Adjectives
- Q.1 Compare pictures using adjectives
- Q.2 Use number words
- Q.3 Use sense words
- Q.4 Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?
- Q.5 Identify adjectives
- Q.6 Compare pictures using comparative and superlative adjectives
- Q.7 Identify comparative and superlative adjectives
- Q.8 Does the adjective compare two or more than two?
Prepositions
Transitions and sequence
Contractions
Capitalisation
Alphabetical order
Word meanings
- W.1 Use context to identify the meaning of a word
- W.2 Choose the synonyms
- W.3 Choose the antonyms
- W.4 Sort words into categories
- W.5 Which word is not like the others?
- W.6 Find the words with related meanings
- W.7 Describe the difference between related words
- W.8 Order related words based on meaning
- W.9 Multiple-meaning words with pictures
- W.10 Use words with prefixes and suffixes
- W.11 Understand words with prefixes and suffixes