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Transforming Fairy Tales: Editing
Students edit fairy tales. In this transforming fairy tales lesson, students edit their previously written fairy tales for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. Students also have the opportunity to peer edit.
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Daily Edits: Water
In this sentence correction activity, students read the sentences and rewrite them by editing them with corrections. Students complete 4 examples.
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Editing Worksheet
In this editing worksheet, students must read a letter and correct verb tense errors. Students must be able to identify correct verb tenses and edit errors.
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Sentence Correction
In this sentence correction worksheet, students rewrite the sentences so they make sense. Students rewrite and correct 4 sentences.
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Proofreading Practice
In this proofreading worksheet, 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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Proofreading Exercise
In this proofreading activity, students rewrite a paragraph to correct various errors. Students must find and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage.
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Spooky Story
Second graders write a Halloween story. In this combined technology and writing lesson, 2nd graders create a Halloween picture using KidPix, insert it into Microsoft Word, and then write a story to correspond with the picture.
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Fragments
In these sentence correction worksheets, students read the sentences and select the correct sentence that fixes the sentence fragment.
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Fragments
In these sentence correction worksheets, 7th graders read the sentence fragments and select the option that correctly identifies the type of fragment.
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Write It Right
In this editing worksheet, students read 5 sentences about sports. Students fix the errors in spelling and punctuation. Note: The page does not specify how to mark the mistakes or correct them.
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Proofreading Marks
In this proofreading worksheet, students 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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Streamlining Your Writing
In this writing skills instructional activity, students improve their writing by completing the three exercises. Students improve wordy phrases, add possessive nouns, and then write a description of a dramatic weather event.
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School-Home Links: Editing Writing
In this editing writing worksheet, students write a story about the most exciting thing that ever happened to them. Students brainstorm ideas on this worksheet and then write the rough draft. Students then complete a checklist of their...
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Error Correction in a Letter
In this ESL friendly letter correction worksheet, students read a letter and look for the 20 mistakes. Students correct the errors in the friendly letter.
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Error Correction- Conditionals
In this error correction worksheet, students read 14 sentences and determine if they need grammar corrections. Students rewrite sentences that contain errors.
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Where Are the Mistakes?
In this proofreading worksheet, students read 17 sentences and look for errors in spelling, grammar, verb agreement and punctuation. Students correct the mistakes. This is intended for ESL students.
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Verb Pattern Error Correction
In this proofreading and editing worksheet, students analyze 13 sentences, some that contain errors. Students determine if there are mistakes and correct those they see.
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Error Correction Worksheet
In this error correction worksheet, students analyze 22 sentences which may contain errors in grammar. Students decide if there are mistakes and correct them.
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Actual Errors in Newspapers
In this journalism editing worksheet, learners look at 26 newspaper headlines and explain what is incorrect about each one. Example: Escaped Leopard Believed Spotted.
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Practice Test: Grammar
For this language arts worksheet, students find grammatical errors in 20 sentences. Students find the error and write each sentences correctly. No line is provided to write on.
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Math Vocabulary
Students identify and teach mathematics vocabulary. They work in groups to prepare presentations using MultiMedia Lab V and songs to create fun ways to remember the vocabulary terms. Students use these presentations to teach the...
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The Editing Process
Students in upper-level college-bound English classes review the editing process and terms such as, tone, diction, transition, and conclusion. They read and evaluate a sample essay and identify parts they feel they could improve on. ...
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In The News
Students investigate the life of Amelia Earhart and conduct research using a variety of resources including Scholastic.com. Then they take the information and write a newspaper article. The entire process of writing is completed...
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Books
Sixth graders write their own story with at least five chapters. They include pictures, a title page, and a cover. They use Appleworks to construct their book. They edit each other's writing, and print a final copy and have it bound...