Student Handouts
Social Media Madness
Tired of seeing u instead of you and 2 instead of too? Teach your pupils how to write for an academic setting by asking them to correct these six social media posts that are full of grammatical errors, spelling errors, and text speak.
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Spelling Proofreading Worksheet
Looking for a quick spelling activity to use as a quiz or warm-up? This resource provides a paragraph of eleven sentences, all of which contain a spelling error. Young learners list the mistakes on the lines below. Make a game out of...
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Spelling
Commonly misspelled words are featured in this activity. Learners have to identify the correct spelling for various words, such as business and jewelry, in this 10 questions worksheet.
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Correcting Paragraph Errors
In this advanced paragraph correction worksheet, students read a paragraph about Pompeii and identify, and correct grammatical and spelling errors. Students answer eight multiple choice questions.
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Mixed Spelling Challenge 1
In this recognizing words with spelling errors worksheet, students read groups of words and identify the five words that are spelled incorrectly in each group. Students circle 15 answers.
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Mixed Spelling Challenge 2
In this recognizing words that are misspelled worksheet, learners identify five words in each group that have spelling errors. Students circle 15 answers.
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Mixed Spelling Challenge 3
In this recognizing words with spelling errors worksheet, students read groups of words and identify five words in each group that are misspelled. Students circle 15 words.
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Advanced Paragraph Correction 2
In this paragraph correction worksheet, students red a passage and determine errors that are underlined. Students choose eight multiple choice answers that correct the errors.
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Beginning Paragraph Correction #13
In this paragraph correction worksheet, students read a passage and observe the underlined errors. Student choose eight multiple choice answers that correct the errors.
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Beginning Paragraph Correction #14
In this paragraph correction worksheet, students read a passage and determine errors that are underlined. Students choose eight multiple choice answers that correct the errors.
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Beginning Paragraph Correction #12
In this paragraph correction worksheet, students read a passage and determine the types of errors that are numbered in sentences. Students choose eight multiple choice answers that correct the errors.
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Beginning Paragraph Correction #15
In this beginning paragraph correction learning exercise, students read a passage and correct underlined errors. Students determine corrections from eight multiple choice answers.
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Editor Travels U.S. Fixing Errors on Signs
An interesting article on editors helps young writers understand the conventions of written English. They read a news article about an editor traveling America correcting spelling and punctuation errors on signs. Â They discuss proper...
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Examining Paragraphs for Errors: Spelling
Learners review a job advertisement to find the error and then select which kind of mistake it is from a multiple choice list. To extend, have them correct the error. Note: It is a spelling mistake. Advertisement is written in British...
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Thank You Letter: Correct Mistakes
Focus on mechanics with your upper elementary schoolers. Provided here is a short business letter and 10 questions. The quiz-taker must decide if certain things in the text are presented correctly. For example, they decide if a comma...
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Edit Essays with Word Tables
Students examine how to identify grammar and spelling errors in an essay using the features of Word after the teacher uses the highlight feature. They correct the errors using Word's table feature by making a table that shows the error...
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Word Wake
Put your common writing errors to rest with this resource, which prompts high schoolers to create eulogies and tombstones for overused and incorrect words. They work on correcting common errors in spelling and usage mistakes in their own...
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Mixed Spelling Challenge 4
In this spelling worksheet, learners analyze the ten words in each of 3 boxes and circle the five words that are spelled wrong. Students write the correct spelling of each word they circled. The vocabulary on this page is standard in the...
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Spelling Detective
Put on your Sherlock Holmes hat and become a spelling detective! Scholars hunt down the spelling errors in a short passage of a high-interest current events text. Here is a great way to develop editing and reading skills.
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Advanced Sentence Correction 2
In this advanced sentence correction worksheet, students find and fix errors in sentences. In this sentence writing worksheet, students write five answers.
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Proofreading For Spelling Errors
For this spelling worksheet, students analyze 20 words that are not spelled correctly. Students write the words correctly and then alphabetize the list.
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Beginning Paragraph Correction #4
In this beginning paragraph corrections activity, students read a passage and determine corrections for underlined errors. Students choose eight multiple choice corrections.
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Find the Error 26
In this grammar worksheet, students locate an error in an extract adapted from a national newspaper's guide. Students also identify what kind of error they see.
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Beginning Paragraph Correction #2
In this beginning paragraph correction worksheet, students read a passage and determine corrections to underlined errors. Students choose multiple choice answers for eight questions.