Advent Calendar: 12th December – Santa’s Proof Reading Challenge

Instructions:

Santa has a lot of letters to read at this time of year!  Here’s one with twelve spelling mistakes and eighteen incidents of missed or mistaken punctuation.  Can you a) identify and b) correct each one?

You can print off a pdf of Santa’s Proof Reading Challenge (recommended) or work on the picture below. Don’t scroll too far as the solution is below.

You can visit Better Tuition’s Advent Activity Calendar every day until 24th December for a fun learning activity in maths, English, verbal or non-verbal reasoning. You may also like to visit our download store, where you can download our 100 Winter Word Problems absolutely FREE or, if you need to practise proof reading and editing skills, why not try our Finding and Correcting Spelling and Punctuation Errors workbook (priced £3.99)?

For tuition, practice exams or a free assessment at our Urmston tuition centre, please call Paul. or Christine on 0161 748 3912.

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