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Spoofing and Proofing the Classics Literature-Based Activities to Develop Critical Reading Skills and Grammatical Knowledge
Keith Polette, Nancy Polette
Book Code: TIP518X
ISBN: 1-59158-518-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-518-3
116 pages
Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited
Publication: 2/28/2007
List Price: $25.00 (UK Sterling Price: £13.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 8 1/2 x 11
Subjects: Reviews:
  • 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     Fall 2007
  • 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.
    —Reference & Research Book News     May 2007
Description: Using "shaggy dog" stories based on classic literature, the Polettes address common spelling and grammatical errors and the ways in which children can be taught to read critically to recognize them. Stories such as Rapunzel, Alice, The Hare and the Tortoise, and King Arthur, purposely embedded with common errors, have been pretested in teacher workshops given by Nancy Polette and in Dr. Keith Polette's classes at the University of Texas, El Paso. Teachers found them specific enough to be used directly in the writing instruction curriculum and fun for students to read and try to figure out.
Each full-page reproducible story and its corrected counterpart focus on common errors (incorrect use of quotation marks, end marks, capitalization, apostrophes, semicolons, run on sentences, homophones, verb usage, etc.). An appendix offers answer explanations, rules to be learned and taught, and more. Grades 3-8.
LC Card Number: 2006032383
LCC Class: LB1573
Dewey Class: 372
PDF Catalogs:
LU School Library Spring 2008.pdf
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