Students will enjoy these fun shaggy dog stories and then be able to apply what they have learned to the editing stage of their own writing process. Grades 3-8.
Keith Polette is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of the English Education program at the University of Texas, El Paso. He is a well-known speaker and presenter and is the author of two textbooks from Allyn and Bacon and several books for young readers. Nancy J. Polette is professor of education at Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, author of more than 100 professional books, and an in-demand speaker at state and national library, gifted, and reading conferences.
Reproducible passages with built-in errors are designed to help
upper-elementary and middle-school students hone in on specific
grammatical concepts through proofreading. The stories are goofy
and familiar, with punny punch lines guaranteed to elicit
groans.
*Curriculum Connections*
Keith Polette and Nancy Polette, an author, presenter, and speaker,
provide 45 reproducible stories that contain spelling and
grammatical errors, with corrections, to teach children in grades
three to eight editing skills. These are Shaggy Dog stories based
on classic literature humorous versions of them that end with a
joke or pun. The stories, such as Rapunzel, The Yellow Brick Road,
and The Frankenstein Monster, instruct students what usage errors
to watch out for and each has the same narrative structure.
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