Workbook Solutions: All About Sounds | Year 2 English IGCSE (Cambridge) - Class 2 PDF Download

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3  All about sounds
3.1 Repeating letter sounds
Focus: 
My shop stocks:
locks, chips, 
chopsticks,
Watch straps,
traps, tops,
taps, tricks,
ship’s clocks, 
lipstick and chimney pots. 
What does your shop stock?
Sharkskin socks. 
Practice: 
Digraphs at the beginning of words:  
sh – shrink; ch – chick; th – thick; th – think;  
sh – shock
Other words may include: thank, shop, chat. 
Digraphs at the end of words: screech – ch; struck 
– ck; splash – sh; string – ng; spring – ng. Other 
words may include: sprang, strong, splish
Challenge:
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3.2 Chants
Focus and Practice: 
Check learners’ handwriting. 
Challenge: 
Check learners’ handwriting. Answers may 
include: feel, see, taste, hear/ show, shout, whisper, 
yell, clap, pass 
3.3 Sound words
Focus: 
Words to clacker and to clack
like trains that travel on a track.
Words to soothe, words to sigh
to shush and hush and lullaby.
Words to tickle or to tease
to murmur, hum or buzz like bees.
Practice: 
a A word that is unkind like ‘ugly’. b A word that 
is scary like ‘spooky’ or ‘ghost’. c Learners’ own, 
e.g. happy, merry, singing, love, cuddle, friends
Challenge: 
Learners’ own but may include: O: oi, oy, ooh, 
oink, ouch / R: rattle, rush, ring, roar / D: ding-
dong, drone, dash / P: pop, puff, purr, pant / O: 
oompah, ooze, oops / W: woosh, warble, whisper / 
E: echo, Eeyore, eek / R: rustle, rap, rabble, ribbit
3.4  Reading a rhyming story 
poem
Focus:
a skis and/or ski boots
b ballet shoes
c football boots or trainers
Practice:
a We have shoes with buttons and with bows. 
b The salesman says, “What do you need them 
for?”
c I sell shoes with buckles, shoes with pearls.
d I sell shoes for driving, shoes for diving, shoes 
for leaving and arriving.
e I sell shoes with funny faces.
Challenge:
a I say to the salesman, “I need new shoes.”
b He says, “What do you need them for?”
c I sell shoes with funny faces.
d One shoe, two shoes, I need new shoes!  
(or accept full stop)
e I say to the saleslady, “I need new shoes.”
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3  All about sounds
3.1 Repeating letter sounds
Focus: 
My shop stocks:
locks, chips, 
chopsticks,
Watch straps,
traps, tops,
taps, tricks,
ship’s clocks, 
lipstick and chimney pots. 
What does your shop stock?
Sharkskin socks. 
Practice: 
Digraphs at the beginning of words:  
sh – shrink; ch – chick; th – thick; th – think;  
sh – shock
Other words may include: thank, shop, chat. 
Digraphs at the end of words: screech – ch; struck 
– ck; splash – sh; string – ng; spring – ng. Other 
words may include: sprang, strong, splish
Challenge:
a sh
•
o
•
p s
•
t
•
o
•
ck
•
s
b l
•
o
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ck
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s, ch
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p
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c ch
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p
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d w
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3.2 Chants
Focus and Practice: 
Check learners’ handwriting. 
Challenge: 
Check learners’ handwriting. Answers may 
include: feel, see, taste, hear/ show, shout, whisper, 
yell, clap, pass 
3.3 Sound words
Focus: 
Words to clacker and to clack
like trains that travel on a track.
Words to soothe, words to sigh
to shush and hush and lullaby.
Words to tickle or to tease
to murmur, hum or buzz like bees.
Practice: 
a A word that is unkind like ‘ugly’. b A word that 
is scary like ‘spooky’ or ‘ghost’. c Learners’ own, 
e.g. happy, merry, singing, love, cuddle, friends
Challenge: 
Learners’ own but may include: O: oi, oy, ooh, 
oink, ouch / R: rattle, rush, ring, roar / D: ding-
dong, drone, dash / P: pop, puff, purr, pant / O: 
oompah, ooze, oops / W: woosh, warble, whisper / 
E: echo, Eeyore, eek / R: rustle, rap, rabble, ribbit
3.4  Reading a rhyming story 
poem
Focus:
a skis and/or ski boots
b ballet shoes
c football boots or trainers
Practice:
a We have shoes with buttons and with bows. 
b The salesman says, “What do you need them 
for?”
c I sell shoes with buckles, shoes with pearls.
d I sell shoes for driving, shoes for diving, shoes 
for leaving and arriving.
e I sell shoes with funny faces.
Challenge:
a I say to the salesman, “I need new shoes.”
b He says, “What do you need them for?”
c I sell shoes with funny faces.
d One shoe, two shoes, I need new shoes!  
(or accept full stop)
e I say to the saleslady, “I need new shoes.”
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3.5  Planning and writing a 
rhyming story poem
Focus: 
Y ou need shoes with dragon’s wings, 
a With laces made from fairy rings
b  And soles made of magic springs, 
Shoes for stepping over seas,
c Shoes for jumping into trees.
d Shoes with special clockwork keys.
e To play where I please, to run where I choose,
f  To race with the wind and never lose.  
Wonderful shoes for a child to wear …
g If you can catch me, I’ll buy you a pair! 
Practice: 
Answers might include:
wings: springs, rings, sings, things
bows: shows, mows, toes
heels: wheels, feels, meals
lights: kites, heights, nights, sights
flowers: powers, towers
laces: faces, races, traces
Challenge: 
Answers may include:
Chart 1: shoe: glue, boo, who, knew, to, two, too
Chart 2: pair: bear, there, fair, stare, stair, tear, 
share
Chart 3: Learners’ own words
3.6 Look back
Focus and Practice: 
Learners’ own answers
Challenge:
a squeaky, creaky
b creaky/squeaky/leaky; away/today
c shoes, shiny
d squeaky, shiny, creaky, leaky
e Possible answers: tiny, whiny, sunshiny, spiny
f old/new