Phunny Stuph: Proofreading Exercises With a Sense of Humor (Grades 7-12)

Your students will really pay attention when you use "Phunny Stuph." Jokes and humorous urban legends make up all 100 proofreading exercises in this useful book. Use the exercises as transparencies to start class, or photocopy them to pass out to your students. The errors include a little bit of everything--missing punctuation, spelling mistakes, errors in usage, sentence fragments, and more. Each exercise includes teaching notes and an example of a possible correction. Most exercises are short--just right for quick, frequent lessons that will really help your students improve their skills. "Phunny Stuph" helps students sharpen their skills at recognizing and correcting errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, sentence structure and usage. However, it also does much more than that. It provides teaching opportunities.