Help your class get off to the best start in using apostrophes for contracted words with this Year 3 Apostrophes 1 Prior Learning worksheet. It includes three varied fluency questions, two reasoning questions and an application question. The questions are all based on an objective from year 2, which is linked to the main lesson objectives and is a great stepping stone into the new learning that will take place in this lesson.

Use this at the start of your lesson or the day before to gauge what children already know and to give you an insight into who might need additional support and who might need an extra challenge. This can also be used as a homework activity, or use it in an intervention. There's a handy answer page to speed up marking, and children can use this as a peer or self-assessment tool.