PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

Guard the treasure!
Lesson focus
Teachers notes
Punctuation
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings
• Grammatical commas
• Apostrophes to show possession
• Hyphens
• Colons for offset lists
Spelling
• Misspelt words
• Plurals (‘s’ and ‘es’)
Grammar
• Subject-verb agreement
Teacher information
A procedure outlines how something is done. It gives a list of materials or requirements. Imperative/
Command verbs are used in the instructions.
Answers
You will need:
• the children in your class • a small box of coins your
• a rolled-up newspaper • a blindfold rolled-up
1. Ask the children to sit in a circle on the floor. sit
2. Choose one person to be the guard. He/She guard
should sit in the middle of the circle.
middle
3. Blindfold the guard and give him/her the give
rolled-up newspaper. Place the box of coins in
Place
front of him/her.
front
4. Choose one person in the circle to try to steal try
the box without being tapped by the guard’s
tapped
newspaper. If caught, he/she must return to
caught
his/her place. If he/she succeeds, he/she
succeeds
becomes the new guard.
becomes
1. (a) Missing punctuation is in bold type.
Viewing Sample
(b) Answers will vary, but may include: roll-top, roll-up, roll-on, roll-off, roller-skate, roll-out, rollover
and roll-your-own
2. (a) Verbs are underlined.
sits – sit (line 4), tries – try (line 10), succeed – succeeds (line 13)
3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.
your, rolled-up, guard, middle, give, Place, front, tapped, caught, becomes
(b) (i) classes (ii) circles (iii) boxes
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