Isn't, Don't and Can't: The Lemonade Stand

Zoe and Mia are open at the Lemonade Stand! Pitchers of lemonade wait on the counter, lemons sit in a row, and two bluebirds have come to watch.

Remember: A short form squeezes two words into one word, and a little mark called an apostrophe (‘) takes the place of the letters that jumped out. Many short forms are made with not: is not → isn’t, are not → aren’t, do not → don’t, does not → doesn’t, did not → didn’t and cannot → can’t. “The lemonade isn’t sweet yet!”

Magic trick: In isn’t, don’t and didn’t, only the o of not jumps out, so the apostrophe sits between the n and the t, right where the o was.