Lesson 1.9: Contractions & Formality Digital Package
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted learners how to form contractions and use a formal voice.
Included in this package:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson: Ready to share with your student(s) with no additional setup
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill: Assign using SeeSaw or use as printouts
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz: Automatic grading for multiple-choice questions and an easy-to-grade editing challenge.
✔️ Robust teacher’s guide: Includes detailed tips and tricks for teaching each activity, answer keys, scoring recommendations, and more.
Suitable for one-on-one use or small group or classroom settings. Our teacher guide gives you tips and support for each method.
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with links to all of the above.
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted learners how to form contractions and use a formal voice.
Included in this package:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson: Ready to share with your student(s) with no additional setup
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill: Assign using SeeSaw or use as printouts
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz: Automatic grading for multiple-choice questions and an easy-to-grade editing challenge.
✔️ Robust teacher’s guide: Includes detailed tips and tricks for teaching each activity, answer keys, scoring recommendations, and more.
Suitable for one-on-one use or small group or classroom settings. Our teacher guide gives you tips and support for each method.
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with links to all of the above.
Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted learners how to form contractions and use a formal voice.
Included in this package:
✔️ 1 fun video lesson: Ready to share with your student(s) with no additional setup
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill: Assign using SeeSaw or use as printouts
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz: Automatic grading for multiple-choice questions and an easy-to-grade editing challenge.
✔️ Robust teacher’s guide: Includes detailed tips and tricks for teaching each activity, answer keys, scoring recommendations, and more.
Suitable for one-on-one use or small group or classroom settings. Our teacher guide gives you tips and support for each method.
When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with links to all of the above.
Resources included in your purchases:
Video lesson
Practice 1.9.1: All about contractions
Practice 1.9.2: Contractions & formality
Practice 1.9.3: Contractions four ways!
Practice 1.9.4: Undoing contractions
Quiz 1.9.5: Contractions & Formality
Teacher Guide
Robust support from June Writers Academy
Skills in focus:
Contractions smoosh together two words and use an apostrophe to replace missing letters.
We use contractions to save time when we write and speak and to sound less formal.
If you’re not sure whether it’s OK to use contractions, think about your audience and what they expect to hear.
There is a limited number of accepted contractions in Standard English.
There are a few contractions that trip up a lot of writers because they sound just like other words.
It’s
They’re
You’re
