Contractions Practice Worksheet

Students form contractions from word pairs and rewrite sentences with the shortened forms, using a completed page to check apostrophes and spelling.
Grades
Grades 2–3
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Updated Aug 03, 2021

Subject
Grammar, ELA
Topic
Contractions, Contractions Practice
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This worksheet is a great way for students to practice creating and using contractions in their own sentences. This is a skill that will help them in their writing and speaking.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Combine two supplied words into a correctly punctuated contraction

  • Replace an uncontracted phrase with the matching contraction in a sentence

  • Use apostrophe placement accurately across seven contraction forms

Teaching tips

  • Finish the seven word-pair equations before moving to the sentence rewrites.

  • Compare the letters removed from have, not, or can with the apostrophe position in each answer.

Skills covered

  • Combining a pronoun with have or a verb with not

  • Placing apostrophes where letters are omitted

  • Replacing an uncontracted phrase without changing its meaning

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Core concepts

  • Contractions practice

  • Contraction formation

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