W8488PR-Learn from Home Workbook 1

Why does popcorn pop?
Read the explanation.
Editing skills
do you like to eat popcorn have you ever wondered why it pops
popcorn is a type of corn each piece of popcorn haz water inside it
when you heet popcorn, the water turns into steam the steam can’t
get owt because of the popcorn’s hard coating soon ther isn’t any
room left inside the popcorn for any more steam this maks it explode
or ‘pop’
1 Punctuation
(a) Find 9 missing capital letters, 2
question marks and 6 full stops.
Circle the exclamation mark.
2 Spelling
(a) There are 6 misspelt words.
Underline them then write the
correct spelling.
you are left with a snak that’s good to eat!
3 Grammar
Compound words are made up of
two smaller words; for example,
‘table’ and ‘spoon’ make ‘tablespoon’.
(a) Write 1 compound word from
the text.
(b) Highlight 3 nouns (naming words)
from the text.
Contractions are words which have
been shortened by taking out letters
and adding an apostrophe; for
example, did not – didn’t.
Viewing sample
(c) What two small words have
been joined to make these
contractions from the text?
(i)
(ii)
can’t
isn’t
(iii) that’s
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