20853_Editing_expositions_Years_2_and_3
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Wonderwings<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings<br />
• Full stops<br />
• Question marks<br />
• Exclamation marks<br />
• Commas in a list<br />
• Grammatical commas<br />
Grammar<br />
• Indefinite articles, ‘a’ or ‘an<br />
Spelling<br />
• Confused words: soar/saw<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
Vocabulary<br />
• Similes<br />
Teacher information<br />
An exposition is written to persuade others to think or do something. Expositions use persuasive<br />
language.<br />
Answers<br />
Imagine soaring high in the sky, experiencing the thrill of flight ...<br />
Have you ever wished you had the ability to fly like a bird? To just flap your arms<br />
<strong>and</strong> take off into the open sky? Well, with WONDERWINGS, now you can!<br />
Aerodynamically designed, non-polluting, fully tested WONDERWINGS can help<br />
you take to the skies. Simply strap them onto your back, <strong>and</strong> you’re up, up <strong>and</strong><br />
away! So simple, anyone can try it. It’s easy!<br />
100% feather-lined WONDERWINGS sold<br />
out in other countries within days of being<br />
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With WONDERWINGS, you can soar like an<br />
eagle. Order your pair today!<br />
1. Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
2. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
flight, ability, feather, countries, soar, eagle<br />
3. (a) a bird, an eagle<br />
(b) (i) a penguin<br />
(iii) an ant<br />
(ii) an owl<br />
(iv) a kitten<br />
4. (a) Teacher check<br />
36 <strong>Editing</strong> skills R.I.C. Publications ® www.ricgroup.com.au
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