I saw this contraction concentration game in a first grade class,
and I did it with my kids who are older, and they like it.
Individulaly index cards have contractions and the two words on
them, i.e., don't, do not, and the cards are placed on a table,
desk, floor, face down, and the kids have to find the matching
contraction and two words. Hope this helps. Nicole

On 7/19/08, Susan wrote:
> On 3/14/08, hiba shishakli wrote:
>> On 1/01/07, Kelly McD wrote:
>>> How do you teach contractions to first graders?
>
> I teach a lot of subjects this way,
>
> you make comtractions on the board. like: don't
> then you make cards: do ...not
> Make lots of cards to go with the contractions you want to teach.
>
> Then wad up the cards, throw around the room, students go get a
> wadded card and come back to their seat. or carpet or whatever.
> by the way, they get the wads SILENTLY. Then say, open your wad
> and go stand by the contraction you think it goes to.
> Then, after you check it and talk about it, they wad, throw it,
> and you tell them when to go get their new wad. you can do it as
> many times as you want. You can do this game with math, compoound
> words, whatever. They have to be silent until discussion time.
> I also use this game to select reading partners, or math
> partners, or whatever.
> Susan

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