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9th grade · English Language Arts · Unit 11 of 14

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: E1.9(D) · editing writing for correct spelling and word choice

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Principle is a rule or belief. Principal is a school leader, or means main.
  2. Affect is usually a verb, effect usually a noun. Accept means receive, except means leaving out.
  3. Learn tricky words in parts: ex-is-tence, li-ai-son, en-tre-pre-neur.

Example: “The decision was based on a ___ of fairness.” principle or principal? The blank means a rule or belief. Principle is the rule or belief. Answer: principle

Proofreading in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 11 of 14 in 9th grade English Language Arts, after Research & Credibility and before Media Analysis.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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?

    • conscence
    • concience
    • consciense
    • conscience

  2. Question 2

    Which word fits? “The new policy will ___ every student.”

    • affect
    • effect
    • affekt
    • efect

  3. Question 3

    Which word is spelled correctly?

    • liaision
    • liason
    • liaison
    • laison

  4. Question 4

    Which sentence has no spelling errors?

    • The commitee will receive the report tomorow.
    • The committee will recieve the report tommorow.
    • The comittee will recieve the report tomorrow.
    • The committee will receive the report tomorrow.

  5. Question 5

    Which word is spelled correctly?

    • camouflague
    • camaflage
    • camoflage
    • camouflage

  6. Question 6

    Which word is spelled correctly?

    • onomatopeia
    • onomatopoeia
    • onomatopoea
    • onamatopoeia

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