In this exercise, students learn about contractions. By identifying regular words that can be formed into contractions and writing down the appropriate contraction, students strengthen their understanding of how language can be manipulated and condensed for different contexts or stylistic purposes. This contributes to their overall language proficiency and writing skills.

Teaching contractions to young kids involves showing them how two words can be combined into one word that has a similar meaning. It also involves teaching them about the apostrophe, which is used to replace the missing letters. For example, instead of saying "cannot" you can say "can't", instead of "I will" you can say "I'll".