Ready-to-Use Revision and Proofreading Activities: Unit 5 Book

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 WholePie?
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.