How is your child doing with contractions?  It seems like we just get them able to spell with all the letters when we start telling them to take letters out!  If you find it hard to teach contractions don’t fret.  It is probably easier than you think.  After all, they already speak with contractions so now all we have to do is teach them what letter or letters we are supposed to leave out and then that all important part, adding the apostrophe.  If you child learned to spell by sounding things out, then you may have a leg up on the process of learning how contractions work.  There are all kinds of rules about how to create contractions but one of the easiest ways for children to learn is to play.  It might be a great choice to let them play contraction games.