Textcheck
Here you practise careful reading. There are two kinds: you find errors in a text you have in front of you alone, or you compare a rendition with its source and find what went wrong when it was passed on. Each kind has three stages. With each stage the texts get longer, the kinds of error more and the help less. For pupils from grade 3 to the Abitur in the German school system.
Choose
- Choose an exercise Find errors in a text or compare with the source.
- Find errors in a text, stages One text, nothing to compare it with. Three stages from spelling to contradictions in the text.
- Find errors in a text, stage 1 Short text. Spelling and slips.
- Find errors in a text, stage 2 Longer text. Also punctuation and mistakes with real words.
- Find errors in a text, stage 3 Long text. Also sentences that contradict each other. The kinds of error are not named.
- Compare with the source, stages Rendition and source. Three stages from numbers and names to opinions that pose as facts.
- Compare with the source, stage 1 Short text. Numbers, names, dates and places.
- Compare with the source, stage 2 Longer text. Also wrong and added details, negations, amounts and degrees.
- Compare with the source, stage 3 Long text, the source is the real article. Also overgeneralisations, conclusions, opinions and loaded wording.
How it works
- Choose what you want to practise: find errors in a text, or compare with the source. Then choose a stage. The card of the stage tells you how long the texts are, which kinds of error occur and what help there is.
- Read the tip on how to read. It tells you what to look out for in this exercise.
- Mark the words that are wrong. You mark with a click or a tap; with the keyboard you choose words with the arrow keys and mark with the space bar.
- When you compare with the source, you read the source first and then turn to the rendition. In the hardest stage the source is the real article on a web page.
- Tap "Check". You see which errors you found, which you missed, and why they are wrong. Then the exercise suggests what to do next.
- It is fine to mark a few extra words if they stand right next to a long error in the same sentence.
What you learn
- I can find misspelt words in a text and mark them.
- I can find misspelt words, even ones a spell checker does not find.
- I can find sentences that contradict each other in the same text.
- I can compare a text with its source and find numbers, names, places and details that differ from the source.
- I can recognise in a rendition what the source does not say, such as overgeneralisations, conclusions and opinions that pose as facts.
- I can recognise judging or emotional wording.