PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper
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Glow-worm grotto<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Capital letters for proper nouns<br />
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings<br />
• Full stops<br />
• Hyphens<br />
• Exclamation marks<br />
Spelling<br />
• Confused words: quite/quiet<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
Grammar<br />
• Adverbs<br />
• Subject-verb agreement<br />
• Prepositions<br />
Teacher information<br />
A description describes the characteristics, components or functions of specific living or non-living things.<br />
Answers<br />
The glow-worm grotto in the Te Ana-au caves in the<br />
grotto<br />
South Isl<strong>and</strong> of New Zeal<strong>and</strong> is well worth visiting.<br />
worth<br />
After you walk carefully into the caves, you are<br />
carefully<br />
asked to get into a small boat to enter the grotto.<br />
asked<br />
When you get there, it is absolutely quiet <strong>and</strong><br />
quiet<br />
pitch-black. The only light you can see is from the<br />
see<br />
glow-worms, which are dotted above you. They look<br />
are<br />
like tiny blue stars. It feels eerie to be silently gliding<br />
silently<br />
under them with no other light or sound. You can’t<br />
light<br />
even see your own h<strong>and</strong> in front of your face. By the<br />
even<br />
time you leave the grotto, you feel disoriented—it is<br />
leave<br />
difficult to say which way is up or down!<br />
difficult<br />
Answers<br />
1. (a) Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
(b) Answers should include two of the following: glow-worms, Te Ana-au, pitch-black<br />
2. (a) Adverbs are underlined.<br />
carefully, silently<br />
(b) Verbs are underlined in bold.<br />
see (line 6), are (line 7), leave (line 11)<br />
(c) (i) into (ii) from (iii) under<br />
(iv) in (v) above (vi) to<br />
3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
grotto, worth, asked, quiet, light, even, difficult<br />
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