✂️ Teaching tips: Teaching contractions

Contractions are formed when we merge two words together, omitting letters and replacing them with an apostrophe, for example: We + will = We’ll

Teaching about contractions is a great way to help your students increase their spoken and written fluency.

Here are 3 fun activities that you can use to teach contractions in your TEYL classroom:

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