Apple Contractions

Students read a story about picking apples. In this guided reading lesson, students do a picture walk to predict what the story will be about. Students begin to notice exclamation marks and change their tone of voice to show emotion....

Words, words, words. Here's a must-have resource for primary grade teachers—a list of high frequency words for every letter in the alphabet, as well as words for days of the week, months of the year, color words, contractions, number...

You could use this resource as a way to begin a discussion of basic sentences with the verb to be. Using simple sentences, this presentation covers the use of the verbs is, are, and etc., prepositions, and contractions.

In this grade 1 language review worksheet, students edit sentences, complete sentences choosing correct words, write words for a contraction, and find correctly spelled words.