Year 2 Maths and English: find where your child needs help
Free Year 2 Skill Checks show which skills your child understands and where they may need more practice, with a suggested next step.
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Year 2 Maths
What Year 2 Maths covers
- Counting and number sense
- Addition and subtraction
- Groups and sharing
- Fractions
- Patterns
- Money
- Measurement
- Time
- Shape and position
- Data and chance
Mistakes our lessons are written to address
Taken from the common mistakes written into our Year 2 Maths topics. They show the kind of slip a check can bring to light, not a measured result.
- Equal number sentences: Treats = as “write the answer” (2 + 7 = 4 + ? gives 9).
- Place value: tens and ones: Reads the tens digit as ones (thinks the 4 in 47 is worth 4, not 40).
- Choosing the operation: Adds the numbers (3 + 5) when the story has equal groups (3 × 5).
Free Year 2 Maths Skill Checks
Year 2 English
What Year 2 English covers
- Reading
Mistakes our lessons are written to address
Taken from the common mistakes written into our Year 2 English topics. They show the kind of slip a check can bring to light, not a measured result.
- Language questions: Picks the everyday meaning of a word instead of the meaning this text gives it.
- Inferring questions: Guesses an answer with no clue in the text pointing to it.
- Fact-finding questions: Picks an answer that is only part of the fact the text gives.