Written Exercise. Write your page[78] for the class book about wild animals. Better write it twice. After the first, rather rapid writing is finished, read it over several times and try to make it better. Try to put better words in the places of some of those you used. Try to add a bright sentence or two. Leave out sentences and words that are not needed. Copy what you then have.
Group Exercise. Before each pupil's account is put in the book, that account should be read by the class to make sure that there are no mistakes in it. The class might be divided into a number of groups of five or six pupils each. Each group could then correct its five or six accounts. The pupils of each group would work together, correcting one account at a time.[79] In this work of finding mistakes the following questions[80] will be useful:
1. Does every sentence in the account begin with a capital letter?
2. Does every sentence end with a period or question mark?
3. Is every word correctly spelled?
4. Are there any mistakes in English?
67. Correct Usage—Good, Well
Some pupils make the mistake of using the word good when they should use well.
The word good is correctly used to tell what sort of person or thing you are speaking of. Thus, you may say, "He is a good writer."
The word well, on the other hand, usually tells how something is done. Thus, you may say, "He writes well."