Reading Contractions
Read and understand contractions with apostrophes, knowing the apostrophe represents omitted letters
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Does your child understand that 'can't' means 'cannot' and 'it's' means 'it is' — knowing the apostrophe stands for the missing letter or letters?
Read and understand contractions with apostrophes, knowing the apostrophe represents omitted letters
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- Read common contractions in text (e.g. 'I'm', 'we'll', 'don't')
- Match contractions to their expanded forms (e.g. 'I'm' = 'I am')
- Explain that the apostrophe shows where letters are missing
“Does your child understand that 'can't' means 'cannot' and 'it's' means 'it is' — knowing the apostrophe stands for the missing letter or letters?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Phonics & Word Reading
- Age range
- Ages 5–6
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