Below is a sample of the Skill Building section of the Cracking the ABC Code Multisensory Editing programs
Following each editing activity, there are two pages which provide specific practice in particular grammatical or punctuation concepts. These exercises are are set out in a systematic format to help students learn the underlying principles. Multiple opportunities are then provided for the student to practise the concept.
The following topics are covered:
- Speech Marks
- Question Marks
- Exclamation Marks
- Me/ I Collective Nouns
- Contractions
- Verb tense
- Plurals
- Commas
- Full Stops
- Capital Letters
- Apostrophes for possession
- ed/t/d
- Relative Pronouns
- Double Negatives
- Prepositions
- Fewer/Less
- Comparatives & Superlatives
- Homophones (e.g., their/there/they/re, your/you’re)
- Relative Pronouns
- Homographs
- Parts of Speech