If You Were a Contraction - (Word Fun) by Trisha Speed Shaskan (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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?

Review Quotes

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.-- "Children's Literature Comprehensive Database"