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Ready-to-Use Revision And Proofreading Activities (Volume 5 of Writing Skills Curriculum Library) [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 160 pages, kaal: 1000 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 09-Nov-2001
  • Kirjastus: Prentice Hall
  • ISBN-10: 0876284861
  • ISBN-13: 9780876284865
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 160 pages, kaal: 1000 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 09-Nov-2001
  • Kirjastus: Prentice Hall
  • ISBN-10: 0876284861
  • ISBN-13: 9780876284865
A practical series that provides over 540 stimulating, ready-to-use activity sheets to help teach and reinforce writing skills in middle/junior high and senior high school students, grades 6-12. Each unit in the series focuses on a different area of writing skills and is complete and self-contained, including 90 reproducible activities in a variety of formats, a brief teacher's guide to effective use of the activities and full answer keys. The activities can be used in any order in any developmental or corrective writing program to meet the specific needs of individual students, small groups, or an entire class.
About the Writing Skills Curriculum Library ix
About Unit 5 xi
Teacher's Correction Marks xix
SECTION ONE WORKING OUT WITH WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS
The Plural Puzzle
Plural words crossword puzzle
3(1)
Working with Plurals
Plural words
4(1)
The Abbreviations Puzzle
Abbreviations crossword puzzle
5(1)
Working with Possessives
Possessives
6(1)
Mrs. Livingston's List
Words often confused word-find
7(1)
Working Your Way To 45 with Every 2 Out of 5
Words often confused
8(1)
When Is a Building Raised? When Is a Building Razed?
Words often confused crossword puzzle
9(1)
Three in a Row
Usage
10(1)
Words We Often Confuse
Words often confused
11(1)
Knowing the Difference
Word meanings
12(1)
Is it the Right Word?
Usage
13(1)
Avoiding Idioms
Idioms
14(1)
Casting Away the Cliche
Cliches
15(1)
Don't be as Stubborn as a Mule
Idioms
16(1)
What Exactly Is All This?
Doublespeak
17(1)
Making Your Writing Clearer
Cliches/idioms
18(1)
Mrs. Linker's Class
Overused expressions
19(1)
Mrs. Malaprop Has to Go!
Malapropisms
20(3)
SECTION TWO MAKING SENSE WITH SENTENCES
Seven-up
Incomplete sentences
23(1)
Sentence or Fragment?
Sentences/fragments
24(1)
Oldies but Goodies
Sentences/fragments
25(1)
Completing the Incomplete
Fragments/run-ons
26(1)
Five Across
Fragments/run-ons
27(1)
A Computer Glitch (Or Two or Three or...)
Word arrangement
28(1)
Out of Order
Word arrangement
29(1)
Stringing the Words Together
Constructing sentences
30(1)
Ten or Fewer
Definition sentences
31(1)
Constructing Sentences by the Numbers
Constructing sentences
32(1)
Let's Expand Here
Adding details
33(1)
Thematic Sentences
Constructing sentences
34(1)
Helping Mr. Hopkins
Editing sentences
35(1)
Matching the Sentence's Two Parts
Clauses
36(1)
Quotations
Combining sentences parts
37(1)
Crazy Quotations
Combining sentence parts
38(1)
The Big Concert
Editing sentence combinations
39(4)
SECTION THREE GRABBING HOLD OF THE GRAMMAR AND USAGE PROBLEMS
Indefinite Pronouns and Water
Pronoun-verb agreement
43(1)
Be the Teacher
Parts of speech
44(1)
Finding a Match
Sentence components
45(1)
Parts-of-Speech Fill-Ins
Parts of speech
46(1)
Clauses
Clauses
47(1)
Do You Agree?
Subject-verb agreement
48(1)
Detecting the Wrong Verbs
Irregular verbs
49(1)
Has He Ate the Whole Pie?
Verb tense
50(1)
Using the Correct Verb Tense
Verb tense
51(1)
Irregular Verbs
Verbs crossword puzzle
52(1)
Doing the Eighty-One
Usage
53(1)
Driving to Work Last Friday, Dad Was in Bloom
Dangling modifiers
54(1)
Lucky Thirteen Grammar Matching
Grammatical terms
55(1)
Diagnostic Test of Usage
Usage exam
56(1)
One to a Sentence
Gramar/usage
57(1)
Problems...Problems...Problems
Editing situations
58(1)
Do You Know Your Grammar and Usage?
Grammar/usage
59(1)
Assessing Some Skills
Grammar/usage/mechanics
60(1)
Nationalities Are in---True or False?
Grammar/usage/mechanics
61(1)
Ten...Twenty-Six...Sixty-Five
Pronoun usage
62(3)
SECTION FOUR THE EDITORS'S DESK
The Infamous Twenty-Five
Spelling
65(1)
Spelling Solutions
Spelling
66(1)
Completing the Spelling
Spelling
67(1)
Spelling Success
Spelling
68(1)
Capital Letters
Capital letters
69(1)
Mastering Apostrophes
Apostrophes
70(1)
Doubling the Number of Apostrophe Errors
Apostrophes
71(1)
The Missing 30
Punctuation
72(1)
The Punctuation Puzzle
Punctuation
73(1)
Why We Use the Comma
Commas
74(1)
The Reasons for the Comma
Commas
75(1)
Detecting the Common Writing Errors
Editing
76(1)
Finding the Eleven Problems
Grammar/usage/mechanics
77(1)
Writing Errors
Editing situations
78(1)
Don't Get Any of These Wrong!
Double negatives
79(1)
A Glimpse at the College Scene
Sentence components
80(1)
It Is Now Time to Eliminate the Wordiness of These Groups of Words
Conciseness
81(1)
Now That Is a Mouthful!
Sentence revision
82(1)
Unloading Some Words
Conciseness
83(1)
Too Wordy!
Conciseness
84(3)
SECTION FIVE MOVING ON TO LONGER WRITINGS
Growing Pains
Revising
87(1)
An Editor's Nightmare
Revising
88(1)
Too Many I's
Revising
89(1)
Here's to the Editors!
Revising
90(1)
Ouch!
Spelling
91(1)
Assessing a Paragraph
Paragraph components
92(1)
What's in a Paragraph?
Paragraph components
93(1)
The CD Dilemma
Writing a business letter
94(1)
A Letter in Need of Repair
Revising a business letter
95(1)
Becoming More Sophisticated
Arranging information
96(1)
Transitions
Transitional words/phrases
97(1)
Joining Them
Combining ideas
98(1)
Punctuating the Dialogue
Editing
99(1)
Supporting the Thesis Statement
Supporting information
100(1)
The Final Word: Use a Better Word
Word specifics
101(2)
Answer Key 103
Jack Umstatter, a master English teacher with over 25 years experience, is a multiple winner of the Teacher of the Year award. He currently teaches English in the Cold Spring Harbor School District in New York and education and literature at Dowing College in Oakdale, New York. He is the author of Brain Games!, Hooked on English! and other practical teacher resources published by The Center.