Reading & Spelling Contractions Activities & Games Printable Version

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.

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.

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.

With this Pre-Made Print & Go PDF, 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 download provides a PDF with three PowerPoint slide files that give extra reading practice. These PowerPoint files can be uploaded to Google Slides, if you prefer that format. See instructions below.

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 67 PowerPoint Slides

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

Happy Reading & Spelling!

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.

How to upload a PowerPoint File to Google Slides 1) Go to your Google Drive and click on + New. 2) Click on file upload. That will open your file explorer.  3) Click on the Reading Contractions PowerPoint Files you saved. Then click Open. 4) That will open them in your Google Drive. 5)Then you can click on Save As and choose to save them as Google Slides.