Can you Proof it?

A step by step program to teach students basic spelling and punctuation proof-reading skills.

Proof reading skills are a powerful and effective tool for assisting students to develop language skills.

By identifying errors through visual cues students are able to strengthen and consolidate their knowledge of the important communication entities of spelling and punctuation.

The activities in this book, not only generate a desire for correctness, but also challenge the student to implement and recall existing knowledge. In this way students reinforce the concepts of clear, accurate and precise English.

Teachers should use this program in conjunction with associated activities eg

• proof reading, and correction, of newspaper errors. These can be displayed in a classroom chart
• asking students to produce their own proof reading activities (see sheet at back of book) to challenge and interest their classmates.

The spelling words and punctuation activities in this book zero in on commonly identified areas of difficulty. For example the spelling activities are based around specific causes of errors eg addition of letters - burgular for burglar, deletion of letters eg Wensday for Wednesday etc. In this way teachers can be sure the program is well-suited to a modern system of teaching Spelling in the classroom.