20853_Editing_expositions_Years_2_and_3

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Student proofreading and editing checklist Use this page to check your work. You will not need to tick all of the boxes. Name: Date: Title: Punctuation: I have included: • capital letters for: • question marks • full stops • commas: • apostrophes: • exclamation marks beginning sentences proper nouns titles in lists for pauses to make meaning clear for contractions to show ownership Spelling: I have: • checked the spelling of any unknown words • not confused words that sound the same Grammar: I have included: • different ‘doing’ words (verbs) • appropriate adverbs to describe verbs • suitable nouns (naming words) • appropriate pronouns • interesting adjectives (describing words ) • suitable conjunctions (joining words) Writing: I have read through my writing to check that: • it makes sense • it is easy to understand R.I.C. Publications ® www.ricgroup.com.au Editing skills xix
Fish for classroom pets Lesson focus Teachers notes Punctuation • Capital letters for sentence beginnings • Capital letters for proper nouns • Full stops • Commas in lists • Grammatical commas Grammar • Present tense verbs • Contractions Spelling • Confused words: chose/choose, they’re/there/their, for/from, weak/week, by/buy, wear/where, would/wood, of/off • Misspelt words Vocabulary • Compound words Teacher information Expositions are written or spoken to persuade others to think or do something. Answers Mrs Hunter, girls and boys, I believe that we must choose fish as our class pets. Fish are beautiful and very relaxing to watch. They’re silent and they won’t stop us from hearing Mrs Hunter or each other. Fish are easy to look after. We would only need to clean their tank every few weeks and to remember to feed them once a day. The weekends wouldn’t be a problem. They could stay in the classroom and we could buy some of that slow release fish food. Another good argument is cost. I know where we can borrow a tank and a pump. We’d only need to buy the fish and a little bit of fish food. They don’t eat much. Please support me by voting FISH 1 in our class pet ballot. choose class they’re from each would weeks wouldn’t buy of where buy don’t Please 1. Missing punctuation is bold type. 2. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type. choose, class, they’re, from, each, would, weeks, wouldn’t, buy, of, where, buy, don’t, please 3. (a) Answers will include: believe, choose, are, need, be, stay, buy, is, know, can borrow, eat, support (b) Answers will include: they’re – they are won’t – will not wouldn’t – would not we’d – we would don’t – do not 4. (a) weekends, classroom (b) Teacher check 20 Editing skills R.I.C. Publications ® www.ricgroup.com.au
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