What is a conjunction?

In reading we have been learning about conjunctions.

We decided that a conjunction is used to make what we write shorter and to make it sound more like when we talk. The apostrophe is put in to take the place of the missing letters.

Bronlee brought two great books that helped us learn about conjunctions we use every day, here are some of the ones we came up with:

I'm         =        I am
I'll          =        I will
I've         =        I have
didn't      =        did not
can't       =        can not
don't      =         do not
couldn't  =        could not
doesn't   =         does not
you're    =         you are
we're     =         we are
we've     =         we have
it's          =         it is

There are hundreds more - what other conjunctions can you think of?

Reading Poll Results

We trialled running a poll via our blog.
We asked people to vote on "What do good readers do?"
Our overwhelming response was that good readers use lots of strategies (clues) to help them work out words they don't know or to work out meaning.

A good reader can:
1/ Use picture clues
2/ Read-on
3/ Re-read
4/ Sound it out
5/ Use blends and chunks

The closed poll and its results can be found at the very bottom of our blog.

Tumble Books

Please check out the link  for "Tumble Books" under Reading Activities.
This site has excellent read-along e-books from early picture books to chapter books and activities adn games linked directly to many of the books.

The link is also here:
http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp