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Spelling Quiz - Year 2 - The Sound a in ‘wallet’ (Questions)

This 'The Sound a in wallet’ spelling quiz tests KS1 children on spellings that have this sound, which is similar to that in the word ‘hot’. These words have been taken from the National Curriculum’s recommended spelling list for children in Year 2.

If there is an au/o sound after letters ‘qu’ or ‘w’ it is shown by the letter ‘a’. This quiz will ask you for words where the ‘a’ sound makes the same as in the word ‘wallet’. Can you spell the missing words?

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1. Please ____ your hands.
[ ] wosh
[ ] warsh
[ ] washe
[ ] wash
2. What time does your ____ say?
[ ] watsh
[ ] watsch
[ ] watch
[ ] watche
3. After her ____ through the fields, she sat down and played on her computer.
[ ] wander
[ ] wonder
[ ] wannder
[ ] wanda
4. ____ do you get if a horse and donkey have a baby?
[ ] Wat
[ ] What
[ ] Waht
[ ] Waat
5. These two ____ all the time.
[ ] qarral
[ ] quarral
[ ] quarrel
[ ] quarel
6. What ____ of oranges do you want?
[ ] quantitie
[ ] quantitey
[ ] qantity
[ ] quantity
7. Did you make the netball ____?
[ ] squade
[ ] squad
[ ] squaid
[ ] sqad
8. These men are playing ____.
[ ] sqash
[ ] squasch
[ ] squashe
[ ] squash
9. I ____ that toy!
[ ] want
[ ] whant
[ ] whante
[ ] wante
10. He ____ the best tap dancer in England.
[ ] wos
[ ] wus
[ ] waz
[ ] was

You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Spelling

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Spelling Quiz - Year 2 - The Sound a in ‘wallet’ (Answers)
1. Please ____ your hands.
[ ] wosh
[ ] warsh
[ ] washe
[x] wash
The 'a' sound is different in these words - it makes more of an 'o' sound.
2. What time does your ____ say?
[ ] watsh
[ ] watsch
[x] watch
[ ] watche
If you are right handed, you will probably wear your watch on your left wrist and vice versa.
3. After her ____ through the fields, she sat down and played on her computer.
[x] wander
[ ] wonder
[ ] wannder
[ ] wanda
Wander and wonder sound the same but mean different things. Wander means walk around and wonder is to think about something.
4. ____ do you get if a horse and donkey have a baby?
[ ] Wat
[x] What
[ ] Waht
[ ] Waat
You get a mule.
5. These two ____ all the time.
[ ] qarral
[ ] quarral
[x] quarrel
[ ] quarel
Quarrel means argue.
6. What ____ of oranges do you want?
[ ] quantitie
[ ] quantitey
[ ] qantity
[x] quantity
We tend not to weigh oranges, instead we decide how many we want.
7. Did you make the netball ____?
[ ] squade
[x] squad
[ ] squaid
[ ] sqad
Don't forget, q and u are always together.
8. These men are playing ____.
[ ] sqash
[ ] squasch
[ ] squashe
[x] squash
Squash is a sport and also a verb; you can squash oranges together to make orange squash!
9. I ____ that toy!
[x] want
[ ] whant
[ ] whante
[ ] wante
There's a saying: I want don't get. This means if you say you want something, that's not very polite and instead you should ask or say please can I have.
10. He ____ the best tap dancer in England.
[ ] wos
[ ] wus
[ ] waz
[x] was
Tap dancers have special shoes with metal attached to the bottom to make a tapping noise as they dance.