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CSI Crime Lab: Classroom Edition

For Teachers K - 12th
Shared ResourceParticipants use their observation skills, communication skills, and reasoning skills to perform forensic tests and solve a crime. This series of activities provides a first-hand (but scaled-down) introduction to careers in Forensic...
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Daily Edits Proofreading: Wheat

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this editing and proofreading worksheet, students read 4 short passages about whet, re-writing with corrections. Correctly written passages are included on page 2. 
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Comparatives and Superlatives: Halloween Edition

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
What's the spookiest thing about Halloween? Which haunted house is ghostlier than the others? A list of Halloween-related adjectives await your elementary learners, along with columns to write the comparative and superlative forms...
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All That's Fit To Print

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use an editor's checklist to help them proofread examples of other students writing, then edit a worksheet embedded in the plan. In this writing and editing lesson, students look for capitalization, spelling, and grammatical...
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Writing a News Report

For Students 3rd - 7th
In this creative writing worksheet, students use the checklist to edit their fictional news report. Students use the checklist to prepare for their final written report.
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Edit a Friendly Letter

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this friendly letter editing instructional activity, students read a letter to "Miss Green," looking for and correcting all errors found in the body, salutation, closing and address of the letter.
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Edit a Friendly Letter

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this letter editing instructional activity, students read a letter to "mom," then recopy it on another sheet of paper and correct all errors found. 
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Friendly Letter Edit

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this letter editing worksheet, students recopy a 2 paragraph letter to "Francis" from a friend, correcting all spelling, punctuation and capitalization errors. 
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Correcting Run-On Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Although this practice opportunity is poorly organized, it does provide a chance for your upper elementary schoolers to identify complete sentences, run-on sentences, and sentence fragments. This worksheet also focuses on ways to correct...
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Ready, Aim, Focus!

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Use photography as a tool to improve writing skills. Provide pupil pairs with a digital camera and challenge them to capture images of the classroom they find visually striking. Each class member then composes a descriptive piece about...
Interactive
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Reported Speech Review 2

For Students 2nd - 4th
Young learners rewrite sentences using reported and direct speech, put sentences in order, and more. A total of four activities are completed. Note: this is an on-line, interactive worksheet.
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Spelling, Capitalization, and Punctuation

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Elementary schoolers explore writing conventions. First they play a ball toss game to practice spelling high frequency words. (A link to a 2nd grade list is attached.) The class works together to correct spelling, punctuation, and...
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Demonstrate A Capitalization Rule

For Students 3rd - 5th
High school or GED test prep can help grade schoolers as well. This handout and related practice sheet clear up all the clutter surrounding capitalization. Sheet 1 provides a list of when to capitalize and sheet 2 provides the practice....
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Speeding Up Grading with Online Resources

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Use websites and apps to increase peer editing, digitize your papers, and automate the objective editing.
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Acrobat 8 Lesson Plan Template

For Teachers K - 12th
If you need a place to plan, print, and edit your weekly lesson plans, look no further than this helpful template. It not only includes a page for your plans, but also helps you set up a lesson planning system with a set of instructions...
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The Past

For Students 3rd
In this past tense worksheet, 3rd graders, working with a partner, read and edit fifteen sentences in order to separate the correct ones from the incorrect ones.
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Is This Sentence Correct? (capitalization and punctuation)

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Turn your youngsters into little editors with an exercise that focuses on some of the most basic and important writing conventions: capitalization and punctuation. Learners fix five sentences and then rewrite a sentence using...
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The Writing Process

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars engage in the various steps involved in the writing process. The lesson plan is written as a guide for the teacher to write more in depth lesson plans for specific activities. This is a good model plan to follow.
PPT
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Who wants to win millions: Multiplication Edition

For Teachers 3rd
Test your class with this Jeopardy Game. They will race for the buzzer to answer these simple multiplication problems and equations. A great way to foster automaticity.
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Who Wants to Win Millions: Fraction Edition

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Intended for 3rd or 4th graders, this simple fraction review covers addition, subtraction, and conversions of basic fractions. Presented in a Jeopardy-style format, this game will be fun and engaging for the whole class.
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Digging Up Dino Data

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use the Internet to research a specific dinosaur. They work in pairs and individually to browse dinosaur websites, take notes on pertinent information, write, edit and illustrate reports. They post their work.
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Borrowing Narrative Skills from Mr. Fletcher: Using a "Prompts in Reverse" Technique to Inspire Your Writers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Help your class find their writing voices with this lesson which uses the work of Ralph Fletcher to guide a "Prompt in Reverse" activity. Using the chapter "First Pen" from Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams, learners decipher what they...
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Punctuation

For Students 3rd - 6th
Sharpen those punctuation skills with this multiple choice worksheet. There are 10 sentences to read, and learners make corrections where needed. Tip: Have your emerging editors go back to their own written work and edit where necessary.
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Compare-Contrast Matrix Maker

For Teachers K - 12th
Check out this amazing, customizable graphic organizer. You can create as many grids as you'd like with two to five columns and three to seven columns. The title is editable as are the labels for the columns and the rows. The process is...

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