If You Were a Contraction

by Trisha Speed Shaskan, Sara Gray (Illustrator)

Overview

If you were a contraction, you would be a shortened form of two words put together. You would change "it" and "is" to IT'S and "could" and "not" to COULDN'T. What else could you do if you were a contraction?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781404847750
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	09/01/2008
Series:	Word Fun
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	618,485
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	460L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Trisha Speed Shaskan was born and raised in Winona, Minnesota, where she waterskied on the Mississippi River, played basketball, and skateboarded. She has written more than forty books for children and taught creative writing to children and teens. Trisha received a 2012 Minnesota State Artist’s Initiative Grant. She won the 2009 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers, Loft Award in Children’s Literature/Older Children. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Stephen Shaskan, who is a children’s book author and illustrator.

Christianne Jones is an award-winning author of books for younger children. Her picture bookLacey Walker, Nonstop Talkerwon a 2013 Gelett Burgess Award and was a Midwest Book Award finalist, and Hello, Goodbye, and a Very Little Lie was listed as one of the 100 best children's books by popular parenting site babble.com. Christianne lives in Mankato, Minnesota, with her husband and three daughters.

Editorial Reviews

Entertaining pigs play through daily situations learning to use contractions. The text reads like a story, while the fact boxes give the simple instructions: “who is” becomes “who’s.” A brief quiz, glossary, Internet sites, and index are included.

Teacher Librarian

Everyone can have fun with words in this picture book for older children! Readers will join this friendly family of pigs as they go about their daily routines, from eating a breakfast of pancakes to building a sandcastle at the beach and from splashing in mud puddles to remembering to take out the trash. As they complete each task on the to-do list, children learn the ins and outs of using apostrophes or adding and dropping letters when two words combine to form a contraction. At the end of the story, there’s a practice quiz in which kids can use their newly-learned rules to form the correct words. Full of creative illustrations, spelled-out explanations, and helpful little charts, Shaskan and Gray’s fun book will bring letter-learning alive—especially for those readers who learn new information best with visual aids.

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