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 contractions. Kids make contraction soup, match squirrel cards with two words on them to the appropriate acorn cards with contractions on them, and more.

Concepts

contractions, spelling, punctuation

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• There are many ideas, games, and activities in this packet that you can pick and choose from
• Laminate the games so that your pupils can play them over and over again, and you can use them over the course of several years
• Build upon the activities by asking learners to write original sentences using contractions

Pros

• Includes plenty of engaging activities
• Provides practice with forming contractions, recognizing words for contractions, printing and tracing
• Has a fun theme and colorful images

Cons

• None

Common Core

L.2.2.a L.2.2.c L.3.2.a L.4.2.a