Notes for Teacher/Tutor - Contractions
September 24th 2008 11:36
Contractions - Notes for the Teacher
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Contractions - Notes for the teacher.
Notes for the teacher – Contractions
NB: The following activities have been written for use in the classroom, but could easily be used for home schooling or tutoring one to one.
The following worksheets (1, 2 and 3) introduce and explain about contractions. They will necessarily be teacher guided activities so children will gain a good understanding about contractions.
We use a lot of contractions in our language and it is important for children to understand what contractions are when they read them. It is also important for children to know how to write them correctly and confidently in their written work.
Contracted words are words that have been shortened by omitting some letter/s and replacing it/them with an apostrophe. eg can’t, it’s
Work through the activities on page 1 as a class activity. Each child has a sheet and the lesson will be teacher directed.
• “Read the following words” – follow the directions on the sheet and read the first list of words. The teacher may ask individual children to read each set of words, followed by the whole class reading the list.
• “Now check this list” – read this list of words. Individual children may volunteer to read the list, followed by the whole class reading the list.
• “What has happened to the words?” – encourage the children to think about this question and let individual children offer their ideas OR divide the class into small groups to discuss this question. The more the children can consider and discover for themselves the better their learning. The teacher may need to apply some skilful questioning so by the end of the discussion the children will have been introduced to words being contracted. They will also understand that an apostrophe replaces the missing letters.
• “Write the contractions on the lines”- children practise writing the contractions on the lines provided.
• “Turn to the challenge on page 2.” - to consolidate what they have learnt and to introduce more common contractions children work through the next two pages.
Interesting Extra:
Skimming through books the children are reading and searching for contractions is a fun activity which will expose contractions at the children’s level of reading development.
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