Find the Errors!: Proofreading Activities (011588e5) [Paperback]

Nancy Lobb (Author), Nancy Lobb (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0825137241 | ISBN-13: 978-0825137242

The fun way to improve writing skills!
Middle school students will enjoy this engaging introduction to proofreading. Each lesson is a short, humorous anecdote or letter, or crossword puzzle riddled with errors. It s up to your students to identify and notate the mistakes. Focuses on spelling, capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, and style.
37 fun-filled lessons
Extensive teacher support includes grammatical rules, answer keys, additional activities, and tests for easy assessment

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: J Weston Walch (January 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0825137241
• ISBN-13: 978-0825137242
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful for children in grades 4-8!, August 15, 2007

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Nancy O'Brien "nance65" (Bennington, NH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Find the Errors!: Proofreading Activities (011588e5) (Paperback)

All pages are reproducible worksheets, which comes in handy if you have more than one child. We used this when my daughter was in 7th and 8th grade and was homeschooling but would be great practice for kids in any school. The sheets are filled with common writing errors and the student finds and corrects them. This is useful in today's world where you see spelling and grammar errors in newspaper articles on a daily basis! Five units focus on spelling, capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, and style. There are overviews and also pretests and post-tests for each unit. My daughter loved this book!Find the Errors!: Proofreading Activities (011588e5)

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Practice, March 23, 2006

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Mary Phillips - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Find the Errors!: Proofreading Activities (011588e5) (Paperback)

Don't like where the answer pages are (before the section?!) but...it's a good review course book :)

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Find the Errors!, December 8, 2010

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Dorelle (San Anselmo, Ca. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Find the Errors!: Proofreading Activities (011588e5) (Paperback)

This is a good book for high schoolers or middle schoolers. There are a lot of grammar exercises too for adult ESL students. I bought it because I am studying to become an online copyeditor/proofreader and I felt these exercises were way too simple for my purposes.