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Proofreading Practice

Read this paragraph and find the five misspelled words. Then, spell each word correctly in a box below the paragraph.

     Petra had the perfect camoflauge. Deep in a desert gorge, this two-thousand-year-old city was carved from sandstone walls in suttle shades of pink and tan. A stop in the "stone city" must have eased the fatige of many a traveler, for Petra had running water piped through a system of channels and cisterns. The city has survived despite Mideastern political caos. Today, amid the debrie of millennia, Petra's ancient structures can still be seen.