Tweens and Advertising

'Tweens' - children ages 9 to 14 - have become a lucrative market in the last few years. As marketing agencies grow more aggresive in creating advertisments that appeel to tweens, you can fite back by encouraging your children to think for themselves.

In a bid to woo your child, advertisers create commersials designed to evoke emosional responses rather than critikal thinking. Advertisements are meant to sell not just products, but feelings. Advertisers aim to make your child want to feel sofisticated and popular. Their stratejy is to make them feer being left out, creating the illushun that buying their product will make him feel good about themselfs.

You have the oppertunity to shape how your child decodes the messages he recieves from the marketplace. You can help him become a shrewd analyzer of ads and a confedant beleiver in himself by following the points below:

Get your child in the habit of questioning advertisement
Urge your child to question whats missing from an advertisement
Have your child think about the economic insentives behind ads
Talk to your child about which purchases your family makes—and why
Foster skeptisism of advertising, espeshally new forms on the Web

How many spelling errors are in the first paragraph?
1. 2
2. 3
3. 4
4. 5
In the first sentence of the second paragraph, there are three mistakes. For the first mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. commersials
2. commercials
3. commershals
4. commershials
In the first sentence of the second paragraph, there are three mistakes. For the second mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. emotional
2. emosional
3. emoshunal
4. emoshunel
In the first sentence of the second paragraph, there are three mistakes. For the third mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. critekal
2. critical
3. critecal
4. critikal
In the last sentence of the second paragraph, there are four mistakes. For the first mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. stratejy
2. strategey
3. strategy
4. stratijey
In the last sentence of the second paragraph, there are four mistakes. For the second mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. fere
2. feare
3. feer
4. fear
In the last sentence of the second paragraph, there are four mistakes. For the third mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. ilushen
2. illusion
3. ilusion
4. illushun
In the last sentence of the second paragraph, there are four mistakes. For the fourth mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. themselves
2. themselfes
3. themselvs
4. themselfs
There is one still mistake in the second paragraph - click from the choice below the word you believe is spelled wrong:
1. evoke
2. advertisers
3. responses
4. sofisticated
How many spelling errors are in the third paragraph?
1. 3
2. 4
3. 5
4. 6
In the third paragraph, there are five mistakes. For the first mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. opportunity
2. oppertunity
3. oportunity
4. oppotunity
In the third paragraph, there are five mistakes. For the second mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. receeves
2. reseives
3. receives
4. recieves
In the third paragraph, there are five mistakes. For the third mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. analizer
2. analiser
3. analyzer
4. analyser
In the third paragraph, there are five mistakes. For the fourth mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. confedent
2. confident
3. confidant
4. confedant
In the third paragraph, there are five mistakes. For the fifth mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. bileiver
2. biliever
3. beleiver
4. believer
In the five bullet points, there are three mistakes. For the first mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. insentives
2. incentives
3. inscentives
4. incentifes
In the five bullet points, there are three mistakes. For the second mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. sceptisism
2. scepticism
3. skepticism
4. skeptisism
In the five bullet points, there are three mistakes. For the third mistake, select the correct spelling below:
1. especialy
2. espeshally
3. espeshially
4. especially
In the bullet points, there is one apostrophe missing. Click on the correct option below:
1. incentive's
2. advertisement's
3. what's
4. ad's