Student Instructions
1. Edit the text to make it a complete and clean sentence.
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Move the lazy cat to check your answer.
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If you missed mistakes on slide one, circle the rule(s) in the blue box that you should remember next time.
Your Goal: Learn to use formal English contractions!
Teacher Notes (not visible to students)
See junewriters.com/teachers for other resources to help you teach contractions and other grammar, punctuation, and editing conventions. Writing conventions practiced in this assignment: • Contractions smoosh together two words and use an apostrophe to replace missing letters. • There are a limited number of accepted contractions in Standard English. • There are a few contractions that trip up a lot of writers because they sound just like other words (e.g., it's and its, they're and there/their, and you're and your).