Counting on and back

Contractions

We have been learning about noticing contractions. Contraction is a word made by squashing 2 words together. Some letters pop out of the 2 words and they are not in the contraction. Contractions have a punctuation mark like a comma sticking in the air in the middle.

"It is tricky to notice contractions when I am reading."

Writing with Capital Letters and Full Stops

"We learnt to put capital letters.  It was tricky.  They go after the full stops.  It was hard to know where the full stops go."