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FREE Contraction Printables for Teaching Contractions

By thisreadingmama 11 Comments

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.}

FREE Contractions Learning Pack - This Reading Mama

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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.
matching contractions from Words Their Way

1.  Contraction Matching & Introduction (from Words Their Way)-This is the last sort in the book, so we’ll be graduating soon!

 

Matching contractions with T-Shirts on the clothesline

2. Contraction Matching with That’s Not my T-Shirt {in free printable pack}

 

reading and playing Concentration Concentration

3. Contraction Concentration {in free printable}: Reading and comparing contractions within the context of sentences.

 

writing sentences with contractions

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.

 

It's my Party! - a story of contractions

5. It’s My Party! A Story of Contractions (FREE Printable)- the directions for this activity are on the download.

 

going on a contractions word hunt through text

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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Comments

  1. Jill says

    March 29, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    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!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      March 29, 2012 at 4:25 pm

      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!

      Reply
  2. Gioia says

    June 15, 2015 at 10:08 pm

    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

    Reply
  3. melissa says

    January 2, 2017 at 4:10 pm

    Thank you, this was just what I needed to help my first graders with contractions!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      January 2, 2017 at 10:13 pm

      Awesome! So glad to hear they worked for you. 🙂

      Reply
  4. Vicki Crawford says

    February 3, 2018 at 11:34 am

    Great resource. Thanks from a new teacher in Alberta Canada.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      February 4, 2018 at 7:37 am

      You’re welcome!

      Reply
  5. Mary Coombe says

    February 4, 2018 at 1:21 pm

    Hi
    Thanks for putting this together. How often we teachers sit at home making resources this is a time-saver.
    Thank you

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      February 6, 2018 at 10:10 pm

      You’re welcome! 🙂

      Reply
  6. Lynn Neilson says

    May 28, 2018 at 8:53 pm

    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.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      May 31, 2018 at 2:50 pm

      You are VERY welcome! I love what I get to do! 🙂

      Reply

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Hi! I’m Becky, a homeschooling mama with 4 blessings who keep me on my toes {and knees}. Before homeschooling, I was a classroom teacher (M.Ed.) and reading tutor. Read more about me here.

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