Apostrophe Activities and Posters

This teacher resource includes 5 apostrophe activities and 10 apostrophe posters for the classroom.

 INCLUDES:

 ACTIVITY 1: Use an apostrophe to show that letters have been left out – match the contractions.

ACTIVITY 2: Use an apostrophe to show possession – Wanted poster.

ACTIVITY 3: Use an apostrophe when letters or parts of a word are left off – comic.

ACTIVITY 4: Pin the Apostrophe on the Donkey.

ACTIVITY 5: Match the correct apostrophe

 10 X POSTERS:

•Apostrophes for contractions

•Apostrophes for possessives to show ownership

•Apostrophes for possessives to show identity

•Apostrophes for possessives to show time, quantity and space.

•Apostrophes for omitted letters

•Apostrophes to make plurals

•it’s or its

•One dog, two dogs

•Both own, each own

•Their, there and they’re

 Australian Curriculum

English Year 3

ACELA1480: Know that word contractions are a feature of informal language and that apostrophes of contraction are used to signal missing letters.

 English Year 5

ACELA1506: Understand how the grammatical category of possessives is signalled through apostrophes and how to use apostrophes with common and proper nouns 

 Common Core USA

English Language Arts: Conventions of Standard English

 Grade 2

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.2.C
Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.

 Grade 3

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2.D
Form and use possessives.