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Contractions
Keep your class on track with contractions! This reference page includes six lists of contractions, which are organized by the word that is being contracted. For example, the word not is the title of the list that includes words such...
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Compound Words - My Baseball Book
First graders examine compound words and what they look like. In this compound word instructional activity, 1st graders read the book, My Baseball Book, and compile a list of compound words from their reading.
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Spelling List 33: Contraction Words, and Academic Vocabulary
For this spelling list worksheet, students practice spelling words that are contraction words and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words total.
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Take Action With Contractions! Concepts: contractions, spelling, punctuation
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...
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Lesson 9 - Contractions
Is it do'nt or don't? How about doesn't or does'nt? A activity on contractions helps learners identify, form, and use contractions. Components within the plan include direct instruction on decoding and encoding contractions, as well as...
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Commonly Misspelled Words
Display this list of commonly misspelled and frequently confused words for your learners. Though there is no interactive component, this handout is a great reference tool comparing many homophones such as sole and soul. One tip...
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Lesson 10 - Compound Words
Individually, words have power, but when added together, they can take on a whole other level of meaning. Readers learn about compound words in the 10th of 17 lessons of the Word Recognition and Fluency series. A script provides guidance...
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Commonly Misused Words
After reviewing two pages of commonly misused words: effect/affect, accept/except, there/their/they're, etc., learners must choose the proper word in ten different sentences. Note: Answers are listed at the bottom of page three.
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The Power Of Possessives
The whole class with get when to use an apostrophe after this activity. They use apostrophes to show possession or ownership. This activity includes a discussion starter, a practice exercise, a story activity, and a practice worksheet.
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High Frequency Words—Red Words
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...
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Guided Reading with Elizabeti's Doll
Practice reading strategies using Elizabeti's Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen. Readers utilize decoding and comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading the story. A detailed list of text features, high frequency words,...
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 4: Contractions
For this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. All words are contractions. Students write each word one time on the lines. There are additional at-home spelling activities listed.
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School-Home Link: Contractions
In spelling with contractions worksheet, students review the rules for making contractions and then study a list of contractions. Students then match words with their contraction spellings. Students then write down all the contractions...
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Spelling List 34: Contraction Words, and Academic Vocabulary
In this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 21 words two times each. Words are contractions and academic vocabulary. A reference web site is given.
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English Skills Worksheet 6.200
There are six word exercises provided here, although they're not necessarily linked together. The first short practice asks learners to give compound words that use the list of words provided. The second asks learners to identify...
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Vocabulary and Concept Development #2: struct and tract
Focus on the Latin roots struct and tract with this PowerPoint, boasting plenty of practice opportunities. To help develop a definition of each root, viewers match a list of words to their pictures. Then, they compare those words to a...
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Contractions
In this identifying contractions worksheet, students read a list of two words and choose their correctly written contractions. Students identify and write twelve contractions.
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Making Words
Third graders spell words and define homophone. In this making words lesson, 3rd graders decipher words from letter strips in an effort to identify the "secret word". Students use a set of letters to spell different words.
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English Skills Worksheet 6.201
Review compound words, onomatopoeia, prefixes, and suffixes with your fifth and sixth graders. Each of the six exercises is short and simple, and the final exercise gives learners three options too choose from. They can use their weekly...
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Contractions
Students use sentence strips to make caterpillars that represent different contractions. In this contractions lesson plan, students hang the caterpillars around the room and practice the contractions for a few minutes each day.
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Apostrophes and Contraction (2)
In this contraction worksheet, 3rd graders focus on the correct placement of the apostrophe in contractions. Students complete 16 problems changing contractions to two words and 16 problems changing two words into the contraction form.
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Homophone Contractions
Seventh graders practice the proper spelling and use of homophone contractions. In this spelling lesson, 7th graders examine the use of contraction homophones. They complete an associated worksheet by identifying 15 examples in an passage.
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Contractions
In this contractions review worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they write the contractions of the 8 pairs of listed words.
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Contractions 4
In this contractions review worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they write the contractions of the 8 pairs of listed words.