Reading & Spelling Contractions Activities & Games Bundle

Description

So many students have trouble with reading and spelling contractions. Do your students sometimes see don’t and read it aloud as do not?  My students do too.

A Few at a Time

Some programs try to show students all the patterns for spelling contractions at once. It often feels like too much for dyslexic students. This resource provides a different approach that gives the student time to get one contraction pattern down before moving on to another one.

Spelling With Extra Vowels

Have you noticed some students add a vowel to the two-syllable contractions like *didin’t, *coulden’t, etc?  They do that because they’re trying to sound out the contraction. We all feel and hear those vowel phonemes. Students need to learn why they aren’t spelled with those extra vowel letters.

Your Students:

• • See the Spelling Patterns for Different Contractions, a few at a time
  • Combine & Shorten the Word Combinations, a few patterns at a time
  • Understand Why We Don’t Add Extra Vowels even though we feel/hear them
  • Learn Why Will Not isn’t Contracted to Willn’t
  • Write Sentences & a Story Using Contractions
  • Read Contractions with Specific Patterns
  • Reading Contractions in Paragraphs, where you’ll remind your students to read the contractions, not the whole words
  • Read Contractions as they Play A Game
  • Spell Contractions as they play two different games
  • Learn to Self-Edit with a check-the-spelling activity
  • Become more confident in reading and spelling contractions

This bundle is in a zip file download that includes both the printable PDF files (with additional PowerPoint Slide games and activities) AND the Digital version–all the PDF activities are ready for online use. If you have some in-person and some online students or want to use the games in Google Slides for classroom centers, etc, you have everything you need.

What’s included in the Printable 24-page PDF:

1. Introduction to Contractions
2. Practice with am, is, are, will, & have
3. Practice with would & not
4. Does Sounding Out Work for Contractions? Q&A about adding those extra vowel letters
5. Writing Sentences with can’t, won’t, & let’s
6. Won’t, A Contraction Evolution infographic about how won’t came to be
7. Reading Contractions in Paragraphs
8. Silly Story Writing with Contractions
9. Check the Spelling, students check the spelling of sentences
10. Analyzing Contractions Spelling Wipe Out Game
11. Creating Contractions Spelling Wipe Out Game
12. Spelling Contractions Dictation Sentences (2 pages)

What’s Included in the 132 PowerPoint/Google Slides:

1. Reading Contractions with am, is, will, are, have, & would
2. Reading Contractions with not
3. Reading Contractions Fluency Wipe Out Game
4. Analyzing Contractions Spelling Wipe Out Game
5. Creating Contractions Spelling Wipe Out Game

Happy Spelling! It’ll be fun!

How to open and use a Zip File 1) Download the Zip file that comes to your email. 2)Double-click on the zip file. 3) Your computer’s file explorer will show you all the files inside the zip file. 4) You can do one of two options here: click on extract all OR click on each file to open and then save to another location. I always do the second option so I can move all the files to a folder. For example, I’d move them to a folder called Contractions where I’ll find them every time I’m looking for contraction resources.