As part of our daily reading activities, the children have been working to better understand contractions. They use them all of the time, but didn’t have a clear understanding that a contraction is actually a word made by shortening and combining two words – words like can't (can + not), don't (do + not), and I've (I + have) are all contractions. To practice their learning, they’ve been having fun playing contraction concentration during word game/academic free choose time. Below is a video that memorably illustrates making a contraction
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April 2017
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