Helpful Hints: Tricks and Skills to Improve Your Reading and Writing
In the pages under "Helpful Hints," you'll find sub-pages about how to annotate a text, pick the correct transition, and use quotes from your text. Each of these skills is extremely important if you are going to improve both your reading and your writing.
Although there isn't an entire page here devoted to Proofreading, it is an essential part of the writing process and one that you can do quickly before you hand in an assignment such as a Reading Response or an Open Response. Click here to view a helpful, online checklist that can help you run edit your writing quickly and efficiently. As you read through the proofreading checklist, can you identify two proofreading mistakes that you make often and two proofreading mistakes that you rarely make?
To practice forming sentences and build other essential writing skills, click here and find the Grammar Arcade game under the Writing and Grammar heading. Choose a skill and play the game that goes along with it!
Start at the Transitions page and move on to the pages on annotating and brackets, or use the drop-down menu above to work on each skill in the order you choose.
Although there isn't an entire page here devoted to Proofreading, it is an essential part of the writing process and one that you can do quickly before you hand in an assignment such as a Reading Response or an Open Response. Click here to view a helpful, online checklist that can help you run edit your writing quickly and efficiently. As you read through the proofreading checklist, can you identify two proofreading mistakes that you make often and two proofreading mistakes that you rarely make?
To practice forming sentences and build other essential writing skills, click here and find the Grammar Arcade game under the Writing and Grammar heading. Choose a skill and play the game that goes along with it!
Start at the Transitions page and move on to the pages on annotating and brackets, or use the drop-down menu above to work on each skill in the order you choose.