Contractions
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We use contractions regularly when speaking. It is important to understand the relationship between contractions and the words they represent. Students should understand that using a contraction does not change the meaning of the sentence. The sentence is expressing the same idea whether using two individual words or a contraction. |
Review Video & Follow These Instructional Guidelines
First Grade
- Notice contractions in everyday speech when you are communicating at home or in the classroom. Identify contractions in the books you read. Note what two words are going together to create the contraction.
- Complete grammar activity “Contraction Match” and “Contractions With Not Matching.”
- Extra Engagement: Use the printable matching game within a cooperative learning structure. For example, distribute one game card to each student and conduct a “Silent Search.” Without talking, students walk around the room holding up their game card for all to see. Partners visually look for their matching partner and stand together or “come together to the rug” or another area of the classroom designated. Once all partners have found their matches, facilitate an oral check by allowing each partner pair to present their match to be validated by the other students.
- Even More Engagement: Students may complete grammar sheet “Using Contractions (Primary)” as an individual assessment tool.
Second Grade
- Play “Contraction Match” and “Contractions With Not Matching" and independently complete grammar sheet “Using Contractions (Primary)”.
- Point out contractions in books you read together, and define which two words are being joined together to make the contraction. Which letters did the apostrophe “eat" in the video?
- Extra Engagement: Print out and play “Contraction Bingo” matching a variety of contractions to the words that form them.
Third Grade
- Complete grammar sheets “Using Contractions” and “Using More Contractions.”
- Extra Engagement: Use the information presented within the sheet to model sentences on a whiteboard or smartboard to create a whole class lesson. Cut the sheet apart, gluing the related answers from the answer key on the back to use within a cooperative learning structure or as a self-checking center activity.
- Even More Engagement: Print out and play “Contraction Bingo” as a review activity prior to completing the individual grammar sheets
Fourth Grade
- Review any previous grade level activities.
- Consider activities under “Possessives” to differentiate between types of apostrophe usage.
Fifth Grade
- Review any previous grade level activities.
- Consider activities under “Possessives” to differentiate between types of apostrophe usage.