This list is identical to the High Frequency Year 1 list above. However, each card is in a dotted print to provide students with the opportunity to practise writing each word.
Read and write an increasing number of high-frequency words
Write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters
Use visual memory to read and write high-frequency words.
Write using unjoined lower case and upper case letters
Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letter–sound correspondences, to spell familiar words
Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts
Understand how to use visual memory to write high-frequency words, and that some high-frequency words have regular and irregular spelling components
Understand how to use learned formation patterns to represent sounds and write words using combinations of unjoined upper- and lower-case letters