Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apostrophes and Contractions
This lesson focuses on apostrophes and contractions; it defines contractions and discusses how they are formed by using the apostrophe to replace the missing letters. It provides a list of common contractions and the words they stand...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Readability: Contractions, Acronyms, and Numbers
This lesson focuses on recognizing and demonstrating the standard uses of apostrophes including in possessives, contractions, acronyms, and numbers. It also provides a practice activity.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Contractions
Apostrophes help shorten words by creating contractions. Learn how to spot them!
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for Forming Possessives
This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Compound Words
This resource has two sections: Overview of Contractions, and video demonstration. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Contractions
This resource allows students the opportunity to master the concept of contractions through contractions word list, flash cards, and test. The interactive voice reads, spells and uses each word in a sentence to ensure comprehension.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Knowledge: Contraction Bingo
A lesson plan in which students play a game of Bingo by matching words and their contractions. Materials are included.
Other
Possessives
This article contains rules about the correct way to incorporate possessives into college writing. A link with downloadable practice exercises is included at the end of the lesson.
Other
World Wide Words: Possessive Apostrophes
This site discusses the misuse of the apostrophe, such as using an apostrophe in a word which is a simple plural, now known as "greengrocer's apostrophe", the contraction it/it's, who's/whose, etc. A trend toward dropping the possessive...
TES Global
Blendspace: Contractions
A six-part learning module with links to videos, and websites about contractions.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Vocabulary: Word Classes and Word Forms
Links to information on different word forms including verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, interjections, prefixes, suffixes, contractions, and "wh" question words.
Quia
Quia: Contractions
An online version of "flashcards" for students to use in learning the contracted forms of phrases. Students can see the word or contraction, flip the page to the other side, or discard the flashcard altogether.
English Zone
English Zone: Contractions Practice
This interactive word study skills site improves students' understanding of contractions with online practice.
English Zone
English Zone: Contraction Quizzes
This collection of contraction quizzes allows students to respond and then view the correct answer.
Courseware Solutions
Got Kids Games: Contractions Hockey Game
Focus students understanding of contractions with this interactive language arts skill-building site. Students' type the contraction of two words for points.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Apostrophe Contractions
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the apostrophe to create contractions (e.g. don't, can't)
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Building Contractions
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart uses snowmen to help students build contractions.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Contractions
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to introduce students to contractions. It provides interactive practice using contractions.
Quia
Quia: Contractions
A short game student can play to learn contractions using "Matching", "Flashcards", or "Concentration".
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: The Apostrophe
This site focuses on the three uses for apostrophes: forming possessives of nouns, forming plurals of lowercase letters, and showing omission of letters and provides examples of each.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Possessive Pronoun and Apostrophe
This Purdue Online Writing Lab article explains the three uses of the apostrophe.
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abcteach
Abcteach: Crossword: Contractions [Pdf]
[Free Registration/Login Required] Solve a crossword puzzle by typing the two words that make up each contraction clue. Click the check button to see if the answers are correct.
Quia
Quia: Contractions (Concentration Game)
A similar interactive game for students dealing with contractions. Students must use their memory to find which contractions match with one another. Game includes graphics, motion, and scoring.
Quia
Quia: Practicing Contractions With Trinh and Tai
Play a memory match game by clicking on the two cards that show a contraction and the words that are used to make that contraction.
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