Here is a great lesson that we did during our CAFE sessions to help students have a better understanding of contractions. It's called Contraction Surgery. The students wore gloves, masks, and used band-aids to heal their helpless patients. The band-aid is your comma :) Here are the steps:
First you make word combos on index cards like He did. Then the students take the two cards and determine what letters they have to take out by doing "surgery" on the cards. Sometimes it was a double surgery. Then they taped it back together to form their contractions with the band-aids. Some took two band-aids because it was a bit more complicated. They loved this lesson.
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