I made up a few FREE Contraction Printables for teaching contractions to ALuv {6 years old} and wanted to share them! {Find the download link at the end of this post.}
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FREE Contraction Printables for Teaching Contractions
In the free printable pack, you’ll find:
1. Contraction Concentration: The cards have sentences that the student reads (written approximately on a beginning of 1st grade level) and matches up.
2. That’s Not my T-Shirt! (Matching Game): Oh no! The shirts and words shrank in the wash and there’s only room for contractions on the smaller shirts!
3. It’s My Party!- a contraction story: read, cut and paste the contractions, then read again!
Here are some of them in action, plus a few more activities we did to work on contractions.
1. Contraction Matching & Introduction (from Words Their Way)-This is the last sort in the book, so we’ll be graduating soon!
2. Contraction Matching with That’s Not my T-Shirt {in free printable pack}
3. Contraction Concentration {in free printable}: Reading and comparing contractions within the context of sentences.
4. Contraction Writing: I wrote four short sentences without the contraction; he found the match from his sort and then used it to write the sentence with a contraction. This was his writing for the day as well as an independent activity.
5. It’s My Party! A Story of Contractions (FREE Printable)- the directions for this activity are on the download.
6. Contraction Word Hunt (using Corduroy by Don Freeman)- We worked together to search for contractions within the text as we read (this was a quick grab off the bookshelf in his room, but it worked well).
I drew a chart for him to record the contractions he found on the left side. On the right side, he wrote the 2 words that the contraction stood for. Side note: We had a discussion about ‘s because sometimes ‘s shows that something belongs to someone (Corduroy’s button) and is not a true contraction.
{Download this Contraction Pack HERE.}
~Becky
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This is absolutely perfect for our daughter next year since she will be in 1st grade! Your timing could not have been better since I am in the middle of planning our next school year. How are you doing all this with a new little addition in tow? I could barely type the proper words on a keyboard when my kids were younger. You are amazing! 🙂
Thank you for sharing!
Yay! I’m SO impressed you’re already planning for next year!!! I’m barely getting by from week to week! I’m just glad I already had our weeks mapped out before NSis came! Thanks for asking how things are going. We’re doing well…ready for some consistent sleep at night; but with kids (of any age), that’s sometimes hard to come by! She did do a 5 hour stretch last night; which felt AMAZING!! I think I actually had a dream. 🙂 Ha!
Dear, your approach, ideas & verve are nothing short of breathtaking!
After getting three own midgets from pre-k through 3rd I didn’t expect to find myself scrambling so hard to provide a curriculum for seven weeks of charitable academic enrichment summer camp for five groups from 4 through 12 in six weeks time…
But at this point, I am singing prayers of thanks for any preconceived material
(without too many grammatical and orthographic errors) that fit our outline.
Coming upon your site has been a revelation.
I have actually done a very similar thing like your t-shirt contraction matching game for math with cancelling to common denominators, – just with clothing cut from felt
and after using it as memory game, pinned onto a clothes line…
No need to say that I loved your contraction lesson built around and upon them.
It certainly would be as intriguing as handy to re-use your “My Party” contraction work sheet, but the click on any of it’s links produces permanent errors.
Did you take it down for a reason? Or have you just moved it? – If so, can you provide a link?
Thank you deeply for sharing your ideas and creative blossoms!!
Yours is a very precious blog!
Be blessed!
Gioia
Thank you, this was just what I needed to help my first graders with contractions!
Awesome! So glad to hear they worked for you. 🙂
Great resource. Thanks from a new teacher in Alberta Canada.
You’re welcome!
Hi
Thanks for putting this together. How often we teachers sit at home making resources this is a time-saver.
Thank you
You’re welcome! 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing this – I am a volunteer reading and writing teacher for three adults (English speaking) who never learned to do either. Your materials are thoughtful, fun, have no errors, and make terrific sense. I really appreciate your work. Thank you again.
You are VERY welcome! I love what I get to do! 🙂