Millie & Biscuit
Short Forms: Contractions

Short Forms: Contractions

How two words squeeze into one, with Millie and her kitten Biscuit: is not becomes isn’t, will not becomes won’t, I am becomes I’m, they have becomes they’ve, and let us becomes let’s. Each family of short forms has its own world, from the not-words to the tricky I’d, which can mean I would or I had, and the little mark called an apostrophe shows where the letters jumped out.

Every card is a little story: Princess Ruby’s drawbridge is stuck, and it will not open! What is the short form of will not? Each world has a big seek-and-find picture to explore.

8 topics

Your path through this unit

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Initial review

Take a first look at each topic and tick Got it once you have the general idea.