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Proofreading Marks
In this proofreading instructional activity, learners learn six common proofreading marks and their meanings. There is an example sentence for each mark. There are no questions for students.
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Comma Exercise 5
For this comma exercise worksheet, students are given seventeen sentences to proofread and edit inserting commas where necessary.
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Writing a News Article
Join the newspaper business with a series of lessons and exercises focused on elements of journalism. The packet focuses on distinguishing fact from opinion, writing effective headlines, sequencing events, and editing and proofreading a...
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Super Sentences & Perfect Paragraphs
An extensive collection of lessons and activities includes many writing, grammar, and proofreading exercises. With templates and worksheets that cover several steps in the writing process, from sentence to paragraph to essay, this...
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Proofreading Sentences
In this grammar editing activity, students edit five sentences to correct any grammatical or spelling errors. Students rewrite the sentences on the line.
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Write the Sentence Correctly-- Use of Its and It's
For this language arts worksheet, students demonstrate proofreading skills by correcting the mistakes in 15 sentences. All sentences contain the homonym its or it's. Students learn that the contraction form has the apostrophe.
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Proofreading Activity: "The Twentieth Century"
In this proofreading worksheet, students mark infinitives, prepositional phrases, subjects and verbs in a paragraph titled "The Twentieth Century,"then edit for missing commas.
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BBC Learning English, Writing
In this proofreading worksheet, students correctly rewrite a passage that contains paragraph, spelling, and punctuation mistakes.
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Daily Writing
In this writing worksheet, students practice proofreading skills by using editing marks to fix one sentence, then rewriting it correctly. Students also examine a humorous picture and write what they think will happen next.
Purdue University
Sentence Fragments Exercise 2
In this sentence fragment exercise, learners are given paragraphs to proofread for sentence fragments. Students are given space to make revisions.
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Verb Pattern Error Correction
In this proofreading and editing learning exercise, students analyze 13 sentences, some that contain errors. Students determine if there are mistakes and correct those they see.
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Finding More Violators
In this editing worksheet, students read twelve sentences and find the word or punctuation mark in each sentence that is used incorrectly. Students underline the mistake and write the correct word or punctuation mark at the end of each...
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Intermediate Paragraph Correction #9
This editing instructional activity has students read a short passage with 8 errors and choose the multiple choice answer that best corrects each error in the passage. This instructional activity provides students with valuable practice...
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Proofreading Practice
In this proofreading learning exercise, students discover five misspelled words in a paragraph. Students then place the correct spelling of the word in a box below the paragraph.
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Write It Right? Scavenger Hunt
For this writing process worksheet, students access the Internet to a specific website to find the answers to five short answer questions associated with the writing process.
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Connectives
Using connectives and conjunctions is an easy way to vary sentence structure. Third graders review the given connectives, then use them to combine two simple sentences. The second section allows learners to use more words and phrases as...
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Third Grade Editing III
In this language arts worksheet, students correct the errors in capitalization, punctuation and grammar in 10 sentences. Students rewrite each sentence correctly.
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Second Grade Editing
In this language arts worksheet, students find the capitalization, punctuation and grammar errors in 10 sentences. Students rewrite each sentence correctly.
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Comma Exercise
For this comma exercise worksheet, students must proofread and edit 10 sentences inserting commas where necessary.
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Extra Word Worksheet 10
In this editing/proofreading worksheet, 5th graders read and proofread eight sentences to find the one extra word not needed in each sentence. Students cross out each word not needed.
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Comma Exercise
In this comma exercise worksheet, learners are given 18 sentences they must proofread and edit for comma usage.
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Active and Passive Sentences
Work with active and passive voice in several different sentences. Fifth graders learn the difference between active and passive voice, and change nine sentences from passive to active and vice versa. Great practice in your writing unit!
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Malapropisms
What's the difference between an allegory and an alligator? Fifth graders work with malapropisms to determine the meanings of words that sound alike. Five sentences challenge them to find the malapropism and change it to the correct...
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Question Marks
Context clues are important when understanding the intent of a sentence. Kindergartners read eight sentences, and decide if each should end in a period or in a question mark. The last two questions prompt kids to draw a mouse and a cat,...