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Spelling Quiz - Year 2 - Spelling Review 2 (Questions)

This 'Review 2' spelling quiz follows on from the Year 2 Review Quiz 1 and will test KS1 children on words they have already learned. The words aren’t in sound patterns which means this will be the best way to see how many spelling rules a child has remembered.

So you’ve played some spelling quizzes and have learnt lots! Now it’s time to put that knowledge to the test. See if you can get 10 out of 10.

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1. Please will you buy me some ____.
[ ] fug
[ ] fuge
[ ] fudje
[ ] fudge
2. She went to see the ____ in the zoo.
[ ] geraffes
[ ] girraffes
[ ] giraffes
[ ] girafes
3. I can't find the missing piece for my ____.
[ ] puzzal
[ ] puzzle
[ ] puzzel
[ ] puzzil
4. Do you have any ____ of how to turn these cogs?
[ ] nowlidge
[ ] nowledge
[ ] knowledge
[ ] knowlidge
5. ____ wash your hands.
[ ] Auways
[ ] Allways
[ ] Always
[ ] Aulways
6. This cloth will catch any ____ paint.
[ ] jroped
[ ] jropped
[ ] droped
[ ] dropped
7. She ran ____ her daddy and hugged him.
[ ] twowards
[ ] toowards
[ ] towads
[ ] towards
8. What ____ of fruit and vegetables would you like?
[ ] quantity
[ ] quantitty
[ ] quantaty
[ ] quanttity
9. Her painting was ____.
[ ] buotiful
[ ] beautiful
[ ] bueatiful
[ ] buaetiful
10. He is ____ _____ at dancing.
[ ] quit and hopeles
[ ] quite and hopless
[ ] quite and hopeless
[ ] quiet and hopeless

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Spelling Quiz - Year 2 - Spelling Review 2 (Answers)
1. Please will you buy me some ____.
[ ] fug
[ ] fuge
[ ] fudje
[x] fudge
The letters 'dge' make a j and g sound.
2. She went to see the ____ in the zoo.
[ ] geraffes
[ ] girraffes
[x] giraffes
[ ] girafes
Male giraffes are taller and heavier than female giraffes.
3. I can't find the missing piece for my ____.
[ ] puzzal
[x] puzzle
[ ] puzzel
[ ] puzzil
All these answers potentially sound the same but only one is the correct spelling.
4. Do you have any ____ of how to turn these cogs?
[ ] nowlidge
[ ] nowledge
[x] knowledge
[ ] knowlidge
If something is to do with you knowing or being clever, it'll have a silent 'k' because it has cleverly sneaked at the front of this word!
5. ____ wash your hands.
[ ] Auways
[ ] Allways
[x] Always
[ ] Aulways
This is a high frequency word, which means you'll use it a lot.
6. This cloth will catch any ____ paint.
[ ] jroped
[ ] jropped
[ ] droped
[x] dropped
Painters and decorators carry a drop cloth around to make sure they don't get paint on furniture.
7. She ran ____ her daddy and hugged him.
[ ] twowards
[ ] toowards
[ ] towads
[x] towards
There are three ways you can write 'to' (two/to/too) but only one way to write 'towards'.
8. What ____ of fruit and vegetables would you like?
[x] quantity
[ ] quantitty
[ ] quantaty
[ ] quanttity
Quantity means how much.
9. Her painting was ____.
[ ] buotiful
[x] beautiful
[ ] bueatiful
[ ] buaetiful
When you say this word, you only hear the 'u' vowel at the beginning and not the two hidden 'e' and 'a' sounds.
10. He is ____ _____ at dancing.
[ ] quit and hopeles
[ ] quite and hopless
[x] quite and hopeless
[ ] quiet and hopeless
If you forget to put an 'e' on the end of 'quite' you change the word to 'quit'.