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Mars Lesson focus Teachers notes Punctuation • Capital letters for proper nouns • Capital letters for sentence beginnings • Full stops • Commas in lists • Colons in titles • Hyphens Grammar • Subject-verb agreement Spelling • Misspelt words Writing • Paragraphing Teacher information A report gives facts clearly without unnecessary information or opinions. Answers Mars: the red planet Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. You can see see Mars from Earth as a reddish-orange colour. This is colour because it has red soil. has Mars would not be a pleasant place to visit. The air is pleasant mostly carbon dioxide, there are lots of giant dust giant storms and the average temperature is –60 ºC. is But Mars has a few things in common with Earth. It has has clouds, canyons, valleys, plains, mountains, polar clouds ice-caps and even volcanoes! Scientists have also have found frozen water under the surface of the planet. surface 1. (a) Missing punctuation is in bold type. (b) (i) reddish-orange, ice-caps (ii) Teacher check Viewing Sample 2. (a) Verbs are underlined. sees – see (line 1), have – has (line 3), are – is (line 6), have – has (line 7), has – have (line 9) 3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type. colour, pleasant, giant, clouds, surface 4. (a) Answers will vary, but should indicate the following: paragraph 2 – ‘What would it be like to visit Mars?’ paragraph 3 – ‘What does Mars have in common with Earth?’ 8 Proofreading and editing skills Prim-Ed Publishing www.prim-ed.com
Mars Read the report. Mars the red planet Mars is the fourth planet from the sun you can sees Editing skills Mars from earth as a reddishorange culour. This is because it have red soil. mars would not be a plesant place to visit the air is mostly carbon dioxide, there are lots of jiant dust storms and the average temperature are –60 ºC. But mars have a few things in common with earth. It has clowds canyons valleys plains mountains polar icecaps and even volcanoes! Scientists has also found frozen water under the surfase of the planet. 1 Punctuation (a) Find the 6 missing capital letters, 5 commas and 2 full stops. Put a colon in the correct place in the title. A hyphen (-) is used in some words to connect smaller words; for example, ‘happygo-lucky’, ‘self-pity’, ‘blue-black’. (b) (i) There are two words in this text that need a hyphen between them but they have been incorrectly written as one word. Add the hyphens. (ii) Find three hyphenated words starting with ‘w’ in a dictionary. 2 Grammar In any sentence, the subject and the verb have to agree in person and in number; for example, ‘He sees’ but ‘They see’. (a) Five verbs in the text do not agree with their subjects. Write the correct form of each verb in the space at the end of the line. 3 Spelling Viewing Sample (a) Write the misspelt words correctly in the space at the end of the line. 4 Writing (a) This text is divided into paragraphs. Each paragraph describes a new thought or idea. The first paragraph answers the question ‘Where and what is Mars?’ Write a question that is answered by each of the last two paragraphs. Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Prim-Ed Publishing www.prim-ed.com Proofreading and editing skills 9
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Mars<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Capital letters for proper nouns<br />
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings<br />
• Full stops<br />
• Commas in lists<br />
• Colons in titles<br />
• Hyphens<br />
Grammar<br />
• Subject-verb agreement<br />
Spelling<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
Writing<br />
• Paragraphing<br />
Teacher information<br />
A report gives facts clearly without unnecessary information or opinions.<br />
Answers<br />
Mars: the red planet<br />
Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. You can see<br />
see<br />
Mars from Earth as a reddish-orange colour. This is<br />
colour<br />
because it has red soil.<br />
has<br />
Mars would not be a pleasant place to visit. The air is<br />
pleasant<br />
mostly carbon dioxide, there are lots of giant dust<br />
giant<br />
storms <strong>and</strong> the average temperature is –60 ºC.<br />
is<br />
But Mars has a few things in common with Earth. It<br />
has<br />
has clouds, canyons, valleys, plains, mountains, polar<br />
clouds<br />
ice-caps <strong>and</strong> even volcanoes! Scientists have also<br />
have<br />
found frozen water under the surface of the planet.<br />
surface<br />
1. (a) Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
(b) (i) reddish-orange, ice-caps<br />
(ii) Teacher check<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
2. (a) Verbs are underlined.<br />
sees – see (line 1), have – has (line 3), are – is (line 6), have – has (line 7), has – have (line 9)<br />
3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
colour, pleasant, giant, clouds, surface<br />
4. (a) Answers will vary, but should indicate the following:<br />
paragraph 2 – ‘What would it be like to visit Mars?’<br />
paragraph 3 – ‘What does Mars have in common with Earth?’<br />
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