The focus for our building vocabulary this week will be contractions.

 

A contraction is a word or phrase that has been shortened by dropping

one or more letters.  In writing, an apostrophe is used to indicate the place of the

missing letters.

Words	Contractions	Word	Contractions
are not	aren’t	she had	she’d
cannot	can’t	should not	shouldn’t
could not	couldn’t	that is	that’s
did not	didn’t	there is	there’s
do not	don’t	they are	they’re
does not	doesn’t	they have	they’ve
had not	hadn’t	they will	they’ll

Here are some examples for you to think about. Look at what letters have been dropped.