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9th grade · English Language Arts · Unit 11 of 12

Proofreading

Spelling and word choice in final drafts

What your child practices

Students practice proofreading in US spelling: commonly misspelled words and confusing pairs such as affect and effect, accept and except, principle and principal.

California Content Standards learning standard: L.9-10.2; W.9-10.5 · editing writing for correct spelling and word choice

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which word is spelled correctly?

    • liaision
    • laison
    • liaison
    • liason

  2. Question 2

    Which word fits? “The car remained ___ at the light.”

    • stationairy
    • stationary
    • stationery
    • stationarry

  3. Question 3

    Which word is spelled correctly?

    • bureaucrasy
    • bureacracy
    • beaurocracy
    • bureaucracy

  4. Question 4

    Which word fits? “Please ___ my apology.”

    • excep
    • accept
    • acept
    • except

  5. Question 5

    Which word is spelled correctly?

    • ocasionally
    • occasionaly
    • occasionally
    • occassionally

  6. Question 6

    Which word is spelled correctly?

    • onomatopoeia
    • onamatopoeia
    • onomatopoea
    • onomatopeia

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