Contracted Words – Y2 Apostrophes SPaG Challenge Mat

This bright, appealing grammar worksheet is an excellent way to practise and revise using contracted words in Y2.

We’ve divided it into five sections: understand, challenge, test, explain and apply.

Activities include SATs-style questions and opportunities for creative writing responses, with eye-catching images as prompts.

The five sections are:

• Understand
  Underline the contracted words in the sentences, and rewrite the words listed in their contracted form.
• Challenge
  Rewrite the sentences with contracted versions.
• Test
  Look at the underlined words. Which word could we use to replace them? Then, match the words to the contracted words with apostrophes.
• Explain
  In your own words, explain why we use the apostrophe. How do we know where to put it?
• Apply
  We often use contractions when writing letters or postcards to friends. Imagine you have visited a zoo. Write a postcard to a friend about your trip.

National Curriculum English programme of study links

• Pupils should be taught to spell by learning to spell more words with contracted forms.

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