If You Were a Contraction

Description: If you were a contraction, you would be a shortened form of two words put together. You would change "it" and "is" to IT'S and "could" and "not" to COULDN'T. What else could you do if you were a contraction?

Review Quotes: Everyone can have fun with words in this picture book for older children! Readers will join this friendly family of pigs as they go about their daily routines, from eating a breakfast of pancakes to building a sandcastle at the beach and from splashing in mud puddles to remembering to take out the trash. As they complete each task on the to-do list, children learn the ins and outs of using apostrophes or adding and dropping letters when two words combine to form a contraction. At the end of the story, there's a practice quiz in which kids can use their newly-learned rules to form the correct words. Full of creative illustrations, spelled-out explanations, and helpful little charts, Shaskan and Gray's fun book will bring letter-learning alive--especially for those readers who learn new information best with visual aids.-- "Children's Literature Comprehensive Database"