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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...
Pearson
Advice: Should, Shouldn't, Ought to, Had Better, and Had Better Not
You shouldn't miss out on an opportunity to review should, shouldn't, ought to, had better, and had better not! Elementary and middle schoolers view a slideshow presentation that focuses on usage rules and examples for these tricky verbs.
Curated OER
Apostrophes and Contractions
Learners make contractions with the two words given, and fill in the correct placement of the apostrophe. They complete 14 words.
Kaylee's Education Studio
Contractions
Keep your class on track with contractions! This reference page includes six lists of contractions, which are organized by the word that is being contracted. For example, the word not is the title of the list that includes words such...
Curated OER
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...
Curated OER
Contractions: not
In this contractions worksheet, students read the 2 words that make up the contraction with "not" and then read the contraction. Students read 26 words.
K12 Reader
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.
Student Handouts
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.
Curated OER
Contractions Exercise 5
In this contractions exercise 5 worksheet, students fill in the blanks online to make affirmative or negative contractions, with immediate feedback.
Curated OER
Affirmative Contractions
In this affirmative contractions worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with affirmative contractions with the 2 words given to them. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Apostrophes for Contraction and Ownership
For this apostrophes worksheet, 4th graders join 5 pairs of words to create contractions with apostrophes. Students then place the missing apostrophes into the text to show ownership.
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Contraction Cards
In this contraction cards worksheet, students match the 20 words with their contraction (like a concentration game). The cards can also be used as flash cards.
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Spelling Vocabulary Words with "PH"
In this completing the "ph" words with missing letters worksheet, students read sentences with incomplete words, use the scrambled missing letters and context clues, and fill in the missing letters to complete the words and sentences....
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School-Home Link: Contractions
In spelling with contractions worksheet, students review the rules for making contractions and then study a list of contractions. Students then match words with their contraction spellings. Students then write down all the contractions...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Multisensory Grammar Activities
Activate various learning styles while covering modifiers and double negatives. These activity ideas provides several sentences for examining each topic. After completing the activities, learners will know how to clarify meaning with...
Achievement Technologies
Language Arts Worksheets
Looking for some quick grammar warm-ups? What about handy spelling crossword puzzles? Find everything you need with a resource that contains practice worksheets for parts of speech, parts of a sentence, common grammatical errors, tricky...
National External Diploma Program Council
Apostrophe Review
Looking for a set of apostrophe worksheets? Need review sheets for the upcoming grammar test? Here is a two-page packet that teaches and provides practice using apostrophes as contractions and to show possession.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Home Sweet Home: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)
Through grand discussion, picture cards, and poems, enhance language proficiency with a Home Sweet Home themed unit created to support English language development. Each lesson follows a listen, speak, move, and/or look routine that...
Curated OER
Contractions With Be
In this grammar worksheet, students use the correct contracted form of the subject pronoun + be to fill in the blanks in each of the 13 sentences.
Curated OER
Contractions
This learning exercise provides ELL learners with a basic explanation of what a contraction is and then a chance to practice completing 16 sentences by creating an affirmative or negative contraction. This learning exercise could be used...
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Negative Contractions
In this negative contractions instructional activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences with negative contractions based on the words given to them. Students complete 10 sentences.
Curated OER
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.
Curated OER
Contractions
In this contractions worksheet, students change words given in parenthesis at the end of sentences to contractions, 17 sentences total. An answer key is included.
Curated OER
Contractions
In this contractions worksheet, students review and discuss how to form contractions and write out the contraction found in sixteen sentences.