 Ready-to-Use Revision and Proofreading Activities: Unit 5
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About the Writing Skills Curriculum Library.
About Unit 5.
Teacher's Correction Marks.SECTION ONE: WORKING OUT WITH WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS.
5--1. The Plural Puzzle.
5--2. Working with Plurals.
5--3. The Abbreviations Puzzle.
5--4. Working with Possessives.
5--5. Mrs. Livingston's List.
5--6. Working Your Way To 64 with Every 2 Out of 5.
5--7. When Is a Building Raised? When Is a Building Razed?
5--8. Three in a Row.
5--9. Words We Often Confuse.
5--10. Knowing the Difference.
5--11. Is it the Right Word?
5--12. Avoiding Idioms.
5--13. Casting Away the Cliche.
5--14. Don't be as Stubborn as a Mule.
5--15. What Exactly Is All This?.
5--16. Making Your Writing Clearer.
5--17. Mrs. Linker's Class.
5--18. Mrs. Malaprop Has to Go!
SECTION TWO: MAKING SENSE WITH SENTENCES.
5--19. Seven-up.
5--20. Sentence or Fragment?
5--21. Oldies but Goodies.
5--22. Completing the Incomplete.
5--23. Five Across.
5--24. A Computer Glitch (Or Two or Three or . . .).
5--25. Out of Order.
5--26. Stringing the Words Together.
5--27. Ten or Fewer.
5--28. Constructing Sentences by the Numbers.
5--29. Let's Expand Here.
5--30. Thematic Sentences.
5--31. Helping Mr. Hopkins.
5--32. Matching the Sentence's Two Parts.
5--33. Quotations.
5--34. Crazy Quotations.
5--35. The Big Concert.
SECTION THREE: GRABBING HOLD OF THE GRAMMAR AND USAGE PROBLEMS.
5--36. Indefinite Pronouns and Water.
5--37. Be the Teacher.
5--38. Finding a Match.
5--39. Parts-of-Speech Fill-Ins.
5--40. Clauses.
5--41. Do You Agree?
5--42. Detecting the Wrong Verbs.
5--43. Has He Ate the Whole Pie?
5--44. Using the Correct Verb Tense.
5--45. Irregular Verbs.
5--46. Doing the Eighty-One.
5--47. Driving to Work Last Friday, Dad Was in Bloom.
5--48. Lucky Thirteen Grammar Matching.
5--49. Diagnostic Test of Usage.
5--50. One to a Sentence.
5--51. Problems . . . Problems . . . Problems.
5--52. Do You Know Your Grammar and Usage?
5--53. Assessing Some Skills.
5--54. Nationalities Are in-True or False?
5--55. Ten . . . Twenty-Six . . . Sixty-Five.
SECTION FOUR: THE EDITOR'S DESK.
5--56. The Infamous Twenty-Five.
5--57. Spelling Solutions.
5--58. Completing the Spelling.
5--59. Spelling Success.
5--60. Capital Letters.
5--61. Mastering Apostrophes.
5--62. Doubling the Number of Apostrophe Errors.
5--63. The Missing 30.
5--64. The Punctuation Puzzle.
5--65. Why We Use the Comma.
5--66. The Reasons for the Comma.
5--67. Detecting the Common Writing Errors.
5--68. Finding the Eleven Problems.
5-69. Writing Errors.
5--70. Don't Get Any of These Wrong!.
5--71. A Glimpse at the College Scene.
5--72. It Is Now Time to Eliminate the Wordiness of These Groups of Words.
5--73. Now That Is a Mouthful!.
5--74. Unloading Some Words.
5--75. Too Wordy!
SECTION FIVE: MOVING ON TO LONGER WRITINGS.
5--76. Growing Pains.
5--77. An Editor's Nightmare.
5--78. Too Many I's.
5--79. Here's to the Editors!.
5--80. Ouch!
5--81. Assessing a Paragraph.
5--82. What's in a Paragraph?.
5--83. The CD Dilemma.
5--84. A Letter in Need of Repair.
5--85. Becoming More Sophisticated.
5--86. Transitions.
5--87. Joining Them.
5--88. Punctuating the Dialogue.
5--89. Supporting the Thesis Statement.
5--90. The Final Word: Use a Better Word.
Answer Key.
About Unit 5.
Teacher's Correction Marks.SECTION ONE: WORKING OUT WITH WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS.
5--1. The Plural Puzzle.
5--2. Working with Plurals.
5--3. The Abbreviations Puzzle.
5--4. Working with Possessives.
5--5. Mrs. Livingston's List.
5--6. Working Your Way To 64 with Every 2 Out of 5.
5--7. When Is a Building Raised? When Is a Building Razed?
5--8. Three in a Row.
5--9. Words We Often Confuse.
5--10. Knowing the Difference.
5--11. Is it the Right Word?
5--12. Avoiding Idioms.
5--13. Casting Away the Cliche.
5--14. Don't be as Stubborn as a Mule.
5--15. What Exactly Is All This?.
5--16. Making Your Writing Clearer.
5--17. Mrs. Linker's Class.
5--18. Mrs. Malaprop Has to Go!
SECTION TWO: MAKING SENSE WITH SENTENCES.
5--19. Seven-up.
5--20. Sentence or Fragment?
5--21. Oldies but Goodies.
5--22. Completing the Incomplete.
5--23. Five Across.
5--24. A Computer Glitch (Or Two or Three or . . .).
5--25. Out of Order.
5--26. Stringing the Words Together.
5--27. Ten or Fewer.
5--28. Constructing Sentences by the Numbers.
5--29. Let's Expand Here.
5--30. Thematic Sentences.
5--31. Helping Mr. Hopkins.
5--32. Matching the Sentence's Two Parts.
5--33. Quotations.
5--34. Crazy Quotations.
5--35. The Big Concert.
SECTION THREE: GRABBING HOLD OF THE GRAMMAR AND USAGE PROBLEMS.
5--36. Indefinite Pronouns and Water.
5--37. Be the Teacher.
5--38. Finding a Match.
5--39. Parts-of-Speech Fill-Ins.
5--40. Clauses.
5--41. Do You Agree?
5--42. Detecting the Wrong Verbs.
5--43. Has He Ate the Whole Pie?
5--44. Using the Correct Verb Tense.
5--45. Irregular Verbs.
5--46. Doing the Eighty-One.
5--47. Driving to Work Last Friday, Dad Was in Bloom.
5--48. Lucky Thirteen Grammar Matching.
5--49. Diagnostic Test of Usage.
5--50. One to a Sentence.
5--51. Problems . . . Problems . . . Problems.
5--52. Do You Know Your Grammar and Usage?
5--53. Assessing Some Skills.
5--54. Nationalities Are in-True or False?
5--55. Ten . . . Twenty-Six . . . Sixty-Five.
SECTION FOUR: THE EDITOR'S DESK.
5--56. The Infamous Twenty-Five.
5--57. Spelling Solutions.
5--58. Completing the Spelling.
5--59. Spelling Success.
5--60. Capital Letters.
5--61. Mastering Apostrophes.
5--62. Doubling the Number of Apostrophe Errors.
5--63. The Missing 30.
5--64. The Punctuation Puzzle.
5--65. Why We Use the Comma.
5--66. The Reasons for the Comma.
5--67. Detecting the Common Writing Errors.
5--68. Finding the Eleven Problems.
5-69. Writing Errors.
5--70. Don't Get Any of These Wrong!.
5--71. A Glimpse at the College Scene.
5--72. It Is Now Time to Eliminate the Wordiness of These Groups of Words.
5--73. Now That Is a Mouthful!.
5--74. Unloading Some Words.
5--75. Too Wordy!
SECTION FIVE: MOVING ON TO LONGER WRITINGS.
5--76. Growing Pains.
5--77. An Editor's Nightmare.
5--78. Too Many I's.
5--79. Here's to the Editors!.
5--80. Ouch!
5--81. Assessing a Paragraph.
5--82. What's in a Paragraph?.
5--83. The CD Dilemma.
5--84. A Letter in Need of Repair.
5--85. Becoming More Sophisticated.
5--86. Transitions.
5--87. Joining Them.
5--88. Punctuating the Dialogue.
5--89. Supporting the Thesis Statement.
5--90. The Final Word: Use a Better Word.
Answer Key.
