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 a class warm-up, 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 showing possible corrections. Most of the 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.
Grades 7-12
- 144 pages
- English
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Topic
EducationSubtopic
Teaching Arts & HumanitiesTable of Contents
Alligators
The Gift
Free Haircut
Grocery Game
Dead Rooster
Homework Excuse
Hiccups
Training the Cat
At the End of Her Rope
Kittens
Putting on Shoes
Grandma’s Visit
Piranha
Fertilizer
Music Notes
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Psychic Friends
The Best Birthday Present
Chickens at the Library
Queen Size
Chess Game
Mad Cow Disease
Feeding the Pigs
Sharing
Fussy Customer
Tomatoes
The Englishman
The Policeman and the Penguin
The Announcement
Decisions, Decisions
Hand Surgery
The Optimist
Three-Legged Chicken
Huffy Snail
Frog Loan
Manners
Pretzels
Animal Crackers
Chainsaw
Watching Out for Bears
Biscuit Bomb
Dad and the Diaper
Hard Workers
Telling the Truth
Tranquilized Cat
On the Run from a Bear
Grounding
A Great Excuse
The Imposter
Zookeeper
What Are Dogs Good For?
Investment in the Future
Coffee Break
Plane Trip
Babies
The Magician and the Parrot
Skydiver
The Parking Ticket
Respect
Elephant Joke
Advice from a Cow
Thirsty Tourist
Impressing the Clients
Prison Jokes
The Art Collector
Washing the Dog
Getting Ahead
Vice Presidency
Beware of Dog
Johnny and the Elephants
Elephant Protection
Little Lily’s Goldfish
The Money or the Daughter
Floating a Loan
Conversation with a Police Officer
The Nobel Prize
Catching Chickens
Biology Test
Expectant Fathers
Chocolate Covered Peanuts
Japanese Banking Crisis
Eating Caterpillars
Frozen Turkeys
Four Psychiatrists
Listening to Father
Grandma’s Home
Emotional Extremes
Trusted Employee
The Old Man and the Drummers
A Gift for the Teacher
Boots
Help Wanted
Centipede
Dead Dog
Backseat Driver
Police Training
Hunting Ducks
Turtle
Hungry Roaches
Poor Baby Bear
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- How to Use This Book
- Alligators
- The Gift
- Free Haircut
- Grocery Game
- Dead Rooster
- Homework Excuse
- Hiccups
- Training the Cat
- At the End of Her Rope
- Kittens
- Putting on Shoes
- Grandma’s Visit
- Piranha
- Fertilizer
- Music Notes
- Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder
- Psychic Friends
- The Best Birthday Present
- Chickens at the Library
- Queen Size
- Chess Game
- Mad Cow Disease
- Feeding the Pigs
- Sharing
- Fussy Customer
- Tomatoes
- The Englishman
- The Policeman and the Penguin
- The Announcement
- Decisions, Decisions
- Hand Surgery
- The Optimist
- Three-Legged Chicken
- Huffy Snail
- Frog Loan
- Manners
- Pretzels
- Animal Crackers
- Chainsaw
- Watching Out for Bears
- Biscuit Bomb
- Dad and the Diaper
- Hard Workers
- Telling the Truth
- Tranquilized Cat
- On the Run from a Bear
- Grounding
- A Great Excuse
- The Imposter
- Zookeeper
- What Are Dogs Good For?
- Investment in the Future
- Coffee Break
- Plane Trip
- Babies
- The Magician and the Parrot
- Skydiver
- The Parking Ticket
- Respect
- Elephant Joke
- Advice from a Cow
- Thirsty Tourist
- Impressing the Clients
- Prison Jokes
- The Art Collector
- Washing the Dog
- Getting Ahead
- Vice Presidency
- Beware of Dog
- Johnny and the Elephants
- Elephant Protection
- Little Lily’s Goldfish
- The Money or the Daughter
- Floating a Loan
- Conversation with a Police Officer
- The Nobel Prize
- Catching Chickens
- Biology Test
- Expectant Fathers
- Chocolate Covered Peanuts
- Japanese Banking Crisis
- Eating Caterpillars
- Frozen Turkeys
- Four Psychiatrists
- Listening to Father
- Grandma’s Home
- Emotional Extremes
- Trusted Employee
- The Old Man and the Drummers
- A Gift for the Teacher
- Boots
- Help Wanted
- Centipede
- Dead Dog
- Backseat Driver
- Police Training
- Hunting Ducks
- Turtle
- Hungry Roaches
- Poor Baby Bear
- About the Author
- Exercise Title Index
- Subject Index
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