20853_Editing_expositions_Years_2_and_3

Save our water
Lesson focus
Teachers notes
Punctuation
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings
• Capital letters for proper nouns
• Full stops
• Exclamation marks
Grammar
• Verb tense
Spelling
• Confused words – be/bee, for/fore,
shore/sure
• Misspelt words
• Doubling consonants to keep vowels short
Vocabulary
• Synonyms
Teacher information
An exposition is written or spoken to persuade people to think or do something.
Answers
Water is our most
precious resource
and it must be
preserved.
Worldwide shortages will be a serious
problem in the future unless we do
something to reduce the amount
of water we use now. This is not
something for future generations
to worry about, it is our problem and
we need to take immediate action.
Water is essential for life. We need
water for drinking,
washing and producing
food. We simply cannot do without it.
Only a small amount of all the water
on the Earth is usable fresh water.
We need to make sure that
the quality of our water is protected.
Pollution must be stopped.
1. (a) Missing punctuation is in
bold type.
(b) Teacher check, to add emphasis
2. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.
be, for, drinking, washing, sure,
stopped, cutting
(b) (i) swimming
(iii) shutting
(ii) shopping
(iv) slamming
3 (a) (i) slipped (ii) slapped
(iii) slopped
4 (a) (i) precious – valuable
(ii) reduce – lower
(iii) essential – necessary
(iv) produce – make
(v) preserve – save
In our homes and gardens, we can
all help to preserve water by cutting
down on the amount we use
every day. We can use less garden
fertiliser and detergent.
Water conservation is our problem and
we must deal with it NOW!
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