These contraction cards are an effective way to teach students that a contraction is a shortened form of two words. Made into a puzzle, these cards effectively teach students how to join two words together. Students find a contraction, then match the two words that is connected to that shortened word.
Great to use in literacy groups as a hands-on activity or as a game.
These print 2 cards per A4 page.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters (ACELA1480)