Spoofing and Proofing the Classics

The Polettes have focused on common spelling and grammatical errors and how to teach children to read critically to recognize them in this fun book of "shaggy dog" stories based on classic literature (Rapunzel, Alice, The Hare and the Tortoise, King Arthur, etc.), which are embedded with common errors. The stories have been pretested in teacher workshops given by Nancy Polette and in Dr. Polette's classes at UTEP. Teachers found them to be specific enough to be directly used in the writing instructional curriculum and fun to read and try to figure out. Each full page reproducible story (there are over 45) and its corrected counterpart focuses on common errors (incorrect use of quotation marks, end marks, capitalization, apostrophes, semicolons, run on sentences, homophones, verb usage, etc.). Included is an appendix with answer explanations, rules to be learned and taught, etc.