PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

The marine turtle
Teachers notes
Lesson focus
Punctuation
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings
• Full stops
• Grammatical commas
• Hyphens
Spelling
• Confused words: through/threw,
there/their, sun/son, ate/eight,
prey/pray
• Misspelt words
Grammar
• Conjunctions
Teacher information
A report is usually written in the present tense and provides facts clearly and without unnecessary
information or opinions.
Answers
The turtle is a reptile, a cold-blooded animal that breathes air through its lungs. The main
feature of the turtle is its hard shell, which can be up to a metre in length.
There are seven types of marine turtle, most of them living in the warm tropical
oceans where they feed on algae and sea grasses.
Turtles spend most of their time in the water but the female crawls on to the beach
to lay her rubbery-shelled eggs. She digs a hole in the sand and lays as many as
two hundred eggs. The eggs are covered with sand for protection from the sun and
predators. After about eight weeks, they are ready to hatch.
Most young turtles fail to reach the ocean as the trip across the open sand is a
dangerous one. Young turtles are easy prey for birds and other animals.
1. (a) Missing punctuation is in bold type.
(b) Hyphenated words are underlined.
cold-blooded, rubbery-shelled
Viewing Sample
(c) (i) self-service (ii) mini-mart (iii) half-hearted (iv) sea-dog
2. (a) Answers should include the following:
that, which, where, but, and, as
3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.
through, metre, length, There, sun, predators, eight, Young, prey
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