Bumblebee Is/Are Contractions Worksheet

Contractions are two words joined into one shorter word, with an apostrophe standing in for the letters that were dropped, and the is, are, and am contractions are the very first ones young writers meet. This Bumblebee Is/Are Contractions Worksheet gives 2nd grade students a friendly, garden-themed way to practice turning she is into she’s, they are into they’re, and I am into I’m. Once children see that the apostrophe is simply a placeholder for the missing letters, contractions stop feeling like spelling exceptions and start feeling like a rule they can use in their own writing every day.

This 2nd grade contractions worksheet is a two-part, print-and-go page. In Part A, students read six pairs of words and write the matching contraction on a wide handwriting line. In Part B, they read three short garden sentences, find the two dark words inside each one, and rewrite them as a single contraction. Use it as morning work, as guided practice after a mini-lesson on apostrophes, as a literacy center task, or as a quick check before a grammar quiz. A complete answer key is included on the second page, so grading takes seconds.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• Answer key
• 6 write-the-contraction items and 3 sentence-rewriting items

There are three reasons the Bumblebee Is/Are Contractions Worksheet helps children lock this skill in. First, it isolates one narrow target — contractions built from is, are, and am — so students are not juggling several apostrophe rules at once. Second, it moves from single words to whole sentences, which is exactly the transfer step that practice pages usually skip; spotting she is on its own is far easier than finding it inside running text. Third, every answer is produced rather than picked from a list, so children must place the apostrophe themselves instead of matching by position.

Teachers and parents can stretch the skill well beyond the page. Try a contraction hunt in a favorite picture book, marking every apostrophe the class can find. Fold an index card so that she and is show separately, then close the fold to reveal she’s — the physical squeeze makes the missing letters obvious. Play a quick oral game where you say a sentence the long way and children answer in contractions. Ask students to write two sentences about their own day, one with a contraction and one without, then read both aloud and compare how they sound.

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