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Preview the 4 daily lessons to ensure you review or introduce skills that may be unfamiliar to students.
Daily Paragraph Editing
A Sticky Business Did you know that the chewing gum industry
is more than just a sticky business it also earns
millions of dollars. The united states produces about
24,000,000 miles of chewing gum each year gum is
available in different varieties flavors and shapes
but did you ever wonder wear gum comes from Did
you ever wonder how its made and where and when
the first people began to chew it People have been
chewing gum it turns out for a very long time
MONDAY WEEK 1
more than a thousand years ago the mayans and
other peoples of central america chewed chicle. Chicle
is the hardened sap of the sapodilla tree ancient
greeks we’re chewing gum made from the sap of the
mastic tree. the native americans of north america
were chewing gum made from spruce sap. By the early
1800s the first store to make and sell spruce gum
had opened in north america. in the 1860s, the use
of chicle as a chewing gum was developed and gums
popularity began to raise
TUESDAY WEEK 1
EDITING KEY: Science Article
rise
Error Summary
Capitalization 4
Punctuation:
Apostrophe 1
Comma 5
Period 2
Other 3
Spelling 1
Error Summary
Capitalization 1 4
Language Usage 1
Punctuation:
Apostrophe 1
Comma 3
Period 2
Spelling 1
where
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Name
Daily Paragraph Editing
A Sticky Business Did you know that the chewing gum industry
is more than just a sticky business it also earns
millions of dollars. The united states produces about
24,000,000 miles of chewing gum each year gum is
available in different varieties flavors and shapes
but did you ever wonder wear gum comes from Did
you ever wonder how its made and where and when
the first people began to chew it People have been
chewing gum it turns out for a very long time
MONDAY
more than a thousand years ago the mayans and
other peoples of central america chewed chicle. Chicle
is the hardened sap of the sapodilla tree ancient
greeks we’re chewing gum made from the sap of the
mastic tree. the native americans of north america
were chewing gum made from spruce sap. By the early
1800s the first store to make and sell spruce gum
had opened in north america. in the 1860s, the use
of chicle as a chewing gum was developed and gums
popularity began to raise
TUESDAY
SCIENCE ARTICLE: A Sticky Business
• commas
• question marks
• commas
• names of places
• names of ethnic groups
WEEK 1
WEEK 1
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Daily Paragraph Editing
Chicle-based gum was first manufactured as a
result of a failed experiment antonio lopez de santa
anna the mexican general whose army defeated the
texans at the alamo in 1836. Brought chicle to new
york in 1860. He hoped to sell it as a type of rubber
a man named thomas adams tryed to make this
“rubber” harden but he failed. Discovering instead that
the rubber could be chewed Adams adds flavorings. he
began to made gum with a chicle base
WEDNESDAY WEEK 1
the main ingredient of chewing gum was chicle
until the mid-1900s. today, gum bases are made from
melted rubber waxes or plastics. After the gum base
has been cleaned softeners sweeteners and flavorings
is added Chewing gum continues to sell and some
surveys report that the average american chews
200 sticks of gum a year. some people chew gum
for the taste but others chew it to help him stay
alert or to help them relax
THURSDAY WEEK 1
EDITING KEY: Science Article
tried
added
make
are
them
Error Summary
Capitalization 1 4
Language Usage 2
Punctuation:
Comma 4
Period 3
Spelling 1
Error Summary
Capitalization 4
Language Usage 2
Punctuation:
Comma 7
Period 2
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Name
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Chicle-based gum was first manufactured as a
result of a failed experiment antonio lopez de santa
anna the mexican general whose army defeated the
texans at the alamo in 1836. Brought chicle to new
york in 1860. He hoped to sell it as a type of rubber
a man named thomas adams tryed to make this
“rubber” harden but he failed. Discovering instead that
the rubber could be chewed Adams adds flavorings. he
began to made gum with a chicle base
WEDNESDAY
the main ingredient of chewing gum was chicle
until the mid-1900s. today, gum bases are made from
melted rubber waxes or plastics. After the gum base
has been cleaned softeners sweeteners and flavorings
is added Chewing gum continues to sell and some
surveys report that the average american chews
200 sticks of gum a year. some people chew gum
for the taste but others chew it to help him stay
alert or to help them relax
THURSDAY
SCIENCE ARTICLE: A Sticky Business
• commas
• names of people
• names of places
• names of ethnic groups
• commas
• names of ethnic groups
WEEK 1
WEEK 1