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Take Action With Contractions! Concepts: contractions, spelling, punctuation
Don't let your pupils get bored with contractions! You've found a veritable squirrel-stash of activities right at your fingertips. This packet includes games, activities, and plenty of materials to support your lesson plans on...
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Contractions
Shorten words with contractions. Second graders use apostrophes to shorten words, including harder ones like might not. Next, they write out the longer versions of various contractions. Have them write a story with these contractions for...
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The Important Apostrophe: It's and Its
Help class members distinguish the difference between its and it's. As individuals read sentences and determine if the use of the two words are correct or incorrectm they fill in the blanks of sentences with the appropriate it's or its.
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Apostrophe Catastrophe
Avoid punctuation errors that have you wondering whether a word is plural or possessive. Learners practice adding in apostrophes to contractions and possessive words by rewriting each sentence correctly.
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Contractions
In this contractions worksheet, students print the contraction for 3 sets of 2 words and then print the 2 words that mean the same for 3 additional contractions. Students choose their answers from the 2 word banks provided.
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Contractions: Identification
In this language arts contractions activity, learners identify the words that can form contractions in each of the 12 sentences and write them on the lines provided
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Contractions Crossword
In this crossword puzzle learning exercise, students solve 18 clues, writing the two small words that goes with each contraction. There is no word bank.
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Contractions
In this contraction practice instructional activity, students answer 5 questions that require them to write out contractions and 5 questions that require them to form contractions.
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The Important Apostrophe: You're and Your
You're going to love a instructional activity that teaches your class the difference between you're and your. Learners read a brief introduction explaining the two words and practice identifying the correct uses. Then, they read...
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The Important Apostrophe: Their, They’re, and There
They're going to be there with their family. Class members practice using and identifying the correct use of they're, there, and their with a skills practice activity. The top half of the activity gives brief background information on...
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Apostrophe Practice
Knowing when and where to insert an apostrophe is important, as well as knowing the meaning of that apostrophe. Class members read sentences and practice putting apostrophes where they are needed.