3rd Grade High-Frequency Words — Set 5

Use full forms to spell contractions

Each contraction in this set preserves letters from two words. I’m comes from I am, it’s comes from it is or it has, and don’t comes from do not. Say the full form, keep the letters that remain, and place the apostrophe where letters were removed. The notes give extra support to the capital letter in I’m and the meaning-dependent choice between it’s and its.

Organize the longer spellings

The words remember and during have clear syllable anchors: re-mem-ber and dur-ing. Instead can be held in the stable written chunks in-stead, and while uses silent e to mark its long i sound. The final y in study spells a long e sound, while such has a familiar short vowel and final ch.

Three spellings need closer attention. Meaning selects weather rather than its homophone whether. In certain, the written ending ain may be less distinct in speech, and money uses o for its first vowel sound. Their notes isolate the exact letters to retrieve.