Year 2 English

IXL offers more than 100 year 2 English skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Hover your mouse over any skill name to preview it, then click to practise!

IXL offers more than 100 year 2 English skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Hover your mouse over any skill name to preview it, then click to practise!

Consonants and vowels

  1. A.1
    Sort consonants and vowels
  2. A.2
    Find the vowels in a word

Rhyming

  1. B.1
    Choose the picture that rhymes with the word
  2. B.2
    Which word does not rhyme?
  3. B.3
    Complete the rhyme
  4. B.4
    Complete the poem with a word that rhymes

Blending and segmenting

  1. C.1
    Blend the sounds together to make a word
  2. C.2
    Identify each sound in a word
  3. C.3
    Put the sounds in order

Consonant sounds and letters

  1. D.1
    Which two words start with the same sound?
  2. D.2
    Which two words end with the same sound?
  3. D.3
    Which letter does the word start with?
  4. D.4
    Which letter does the word end with?

Diphthongs: oi, oy, ou, ow

  1. I.1
    Choose the diphthong word that matches the picture
  2. I.2
    Complete the word with the right diphthong: oi, oy, ou, ow

Sight words

  1. K.1
    Choose the sight word that you hear
  2. K.2
    Complete the sentence with the correct sight word
  3. K.3
    Spell the sight word

Articles

  1. P.1
    Use the correct article: a or an
  2. P.2
    Identify articles

Prepositions

  1. R.1
    Select the best preposition to match the picture
  2. R.2
    Select the best preposition to complete the sentence

Transitions and sequence

  1. S.1
    Use conjunctions
  2. S.2
    Identify time-order words
  3. S.3
    Put the sentences in order

Contractions

  1. T.1
    Match the contractions
  2. T.2
    Form pronoun-verb contractions
  3. T.3
    Form contractions with 'not'
  4. T.4
    Complete the sentence with the correct contraction

Capitalisation

  1. U.1
    Capitalise the names of people and pets
  2. U.2
    Capitalise days and months
  3. U.3
    Capitalise sentences and the pronoun 'I'

Alphabetical order

  1. V.1
    Put the letters in ABC order
  2. V.2
    Put the words in ABC order

Literacy skills

  1. X.1
    Which could happen in real life?
  2. X.2
    Which feeling matches the picture?
  3. X.3
    What is the picture about?
  4. X.4
    What will happen next?
  5. X.5
    What am I?