PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

Book review
Lesson focus
Teachers notes
Punctuation
• Apostrophes to show possession
• Capital letters for titles
• Capital letters for proper nouns
• Hyphens
Spelling
• Confused words: by/bye, would/wood,
real/reel, to/too/two, for/four
• Misspelt words
• Plurals (‘es’)
Grammar
• Conjunctions
• Verb tenses
Teacher information
A report is usually written in the present tense and gives facts clearly, without unnecessary information.
Answers
‘Disastrous!’ by John Chan is an older children’s
by
book that describes all sorts of natural and
describes
human-created disasters, from shipwrecks to
to
volcanoes. Any child with an interest in science
interest
and technology would enjoy this book.
would
The text is easy to read and contains lists of
little-known facts and quotes from real eyewitnesses.
The photographs and illustrations are bright and
interesting but sometimes they are a bit too
violent for the target age group of the book. Chan’s
book also leaves out some of the more well-known
disasters, like the sinking of the ’Titanic’ and the Black
Death. But the disasters he includes have been
well-researched and make fascinating reading.
1. (a) Missing punctuation is in bold type.
Viewing Sample
contains
real
bright
too
for
leaves
sinking
includes
fascinating
Hyphenated words are: human-created, little-known, well-known, well-researched
2. (a) Answers should include two of the following: and, but, that
(b) Verbs are underlined.
describes, contains, leaves, includes
3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.
by, to, interest, would, real, bright, too, for, sinking, fascinating
(b) Plural words are underlined in bold.
volcanoes, eyewitnesses, Teacher check
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