Its Vs It’s Grammar Worksheet | Contractions and Possessives | Practice Pages

Practicing its vs it’s with real sentences

This its vs it’s worksheet pack gives students focused, low pressure practice telling apart the contraction “it’s” and the possessive pronoun “its.”

It’s built for a classroom that already knows the difference between a contraction and a possessive but still slips up in fast writing. The set walks through the rule from multiple choice to open writing, so the concept gets repeated instead of taught once and dropped.

As a grade 4 grammar worksheet, the sentence topics stay simple: dogs, cats, robots, cars, and the weather. Third graders who already read full sentences can usually follow along, and fifth graders who still mix up the two words get the same steady repetition.

What students actually do

The worksheet opens with twenty multiple choice items where students pick A) It’s or B) Its to complete a sentence, such as “The dog wagged ___ tail happily” or “___ time to go to school.”

A second set of twenty items removes the letter choices and has students write “it’s” or “its” straight onto the blank, using prompts like “The hamster runs in ___ wheel” or “___ never too late to learn.”

Next comes a true or false section: students read a full sentence such as “The cat chased it’s tail” and decide whether the apostrophe was used correctly. Fifteen sentences cover both correct and incorrect examples.

The worksheet then asks students to rewrite ten broken sentences correctly, for example turning “The bear scratched it’s back” into “The bear scratched its back,” before finishing with five short writing prompts. Students compose their own sentences, explain the rule in their own words, and write a short animal story that uses “its” at least once.

What’s in the its vs it’s download

The student worksheet runs 15 pages and covers all five parts described above. A plain answer key adds 13 pages with the correct response listed under every question, useful for quick grading.

A separate teacher key spans 36 pages and goes further: each question includes a short “why” explanation, the common mistake students make on that item, and a tip for remembering the rule. It also spells out the correct spelling letter by letter for the fill-in and rewrite sections.

The download also includes a one page lesson plan, giving teachers a full 60 minute session built around this worksheet with answer key: a warm-up where students vote on two incorrect example sentences, direct instruction using a “contraction surgery” visual, guided practice with a finger-voting activity, the independent worksheet itself, and a closing activity where students post a sticky note sentence on their way out the door.

How to use it in class or at home

Hand out the worksheet as a full grammar lesson using the included plan, or split it into shorter warm-ups and use one part per day. The true or false and rewrite sections work well as quick checks once the multiple choice pages are finished.

At home, a parent can read straight from the teacher key and walk through the “why” and “tip” notes for each question instead of just marking answers right or wrong. The plain answer key is enough for a student working independently and checking their own work.

Everything is provided as a PDF, so it prints straight from a printer or opens on a tablet for typing answers. Take a look at the preview pages before buying to see the exact wording and layout of each section.

The set also works well for early finishers, a sub plan day, or a homeschool grammar block. Because the parts build in difficulty, a teacher can assign only the multiple choice pages to a student who needs more support, and save the writing prompts for a student ready for a bigger challenge.

For more its vs it’s and grammar practice, browse the grammar worksheets collection, or check the wider worksheets and ELA categories for related resources.

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