Rise and Shine STAAR Prep Grade 8 Editing and Revising Teacher Edition
Author | : Sarah M. Williams |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2014-12-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 1505576938 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781505576931 |
Rating | : 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Do you need a resource to give your students extensive practice in the often difficult and elusive skills of editing and revising? These workbooksmay be just what you're looking for. Students are required to read passages embedded with errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization. They are then asked multiple-choice questions designed to help them recognize and correct these mistakes. These exercises will help students to better understand the essentialskills of finding and correcting editorial problems and revising writing appropriately. Students will soon be on their way to mastering these two very important steps in the writing process.• Hours of practice on skills leading to editing and revising mastery.• High-interest passages embedded with the most common errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization.• Multiple-choice questions after each passage help students find, recognize and correct mistakes.• Teacher Editions provide correct answers and identify the skill targeted in each question. Grade Levels 2–8. Also great for home schooling!