NAPLAN PREP

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Warm up –
spelling test
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 Grammar/spelling lesson
WALT
• Develop skills in comprehension and text editing
WILF
I can,
• Interpret sentences in texts to find spelling, word choice and punctuation mistakes
TIB
• Spellcheck cannot solve all of your problems…

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 Rewrite the following sentences, fixing the
incorrect word circled.

• 1. He ate a cruntchy carrot.

• 2. The shop was offerring free gift-wrapping.

• 3. The man wore a watch on his rist.

• 4. Our cat wears a coller with a bell.

• 5. Wombats live underground in burros .

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 Find the spelling mistake in the sentence, re-write the
sentence and the incorrect word correctly

We had to detoor through back streets because the highway was being repaired.

The graphick designer is responsible for the layout of the magazine.

Maps have simbols to show vegetation and other significant features.

The artist skeched the outline of the picture.

A steep footpath provided the only acess to the remote cottage

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 Group Work

• Form groups of 3

Step 1 – spelling
Step 2 – word choices
Step 3 – punctuation

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 Group work – Step 1

• Read the text

• As a group, annotate looking for spelling mistakes

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 Group work – Step 2

• With the same text – where a word has been boxed out – add a
word that completes the sentence correctly.

e.g. The group was well known for    alternative energy

solutions. developing

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 Group Work - Step 3

• With the same text – look in the bolded sentences for punctuation
mistakes.
• Suggest a change by annotating your groups copy.

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The summer months in England are June July and
August.
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 Exit Slip

• Send an email to jhanw0@eq.edu.au

• In your email – explain what is grammatically wrong with the

sentence below.

My first flight in a airoplane was very exciting.

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