Sentences with contractions

Grade 1 · Day 48 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 37 · p.49 · 25.4 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 27 words

is
not
isn't
can
can't
has
hasn't
it
let
us
let's
did
didn't
Bill
sad
this
peg's
dog
jill's
Peg
cat
they
run
Jill
jog
Yes
it's

◆ marks a word that does NOT follow today's pattern — Blumenfeld boxes these on the page. Teach it by heart; do not let the class sound it out and lose faith in the rule.

Read the sentences

Write what you hear

is
not
isn't
can
can't

Say the word, have them repeat it, count the sounds on fingers, THEN write. The count is what stops a child writing the first letter and guessing the rest.