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...

Editing a letter isn't quite the same thing as fixing an autocorrected word on your phone, but it's an important skill that can help kids with their language arts skills. Young readers take a look at a short letter before identifying the...

For this proofreading worksheet, students identify spelling, capitalization, punctuation and grammar mistakes in a descriptive paragraph and use editing marks to correct them.

In this editing a paragraph activity, learners read and edit a short paragraph on "Volcanic Iceland" and find the ten errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct the errors.

Practice language convention usage with this brief proofreading exercise. Together your class can verbally correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Ida B. Wells. Then individual learners can rewrite it or mark the hard...

Learners correct errors in spelling and usage in a quick, six-line proofreading exercise. Makes a nice warm-up and reinforces editing skills. I've seen work like this called Daily Oral Language (D.O.L) practice; the class reviews the...

Pupils proofread a short paragraph about Carl Sandburg. The errors span capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Useful as a warm-up and language conventions review. Go over it together as a class verbally and have individual...

Young editors use this half-sheet paragraph about Harriet Tubman to practice proofreading skills. Errors needing correction include spelling, quotation marks, commas, there/their usage, and capitalization.

The focus of this writing learning exercise is to have writers revise and edit a three-paragraph passage to eliminate wordiness and repetition. The paragraphs are quite long, and this should take most learners quite a while to complete.

Some self-paced writing resources are just better than others. This one is great. The 205-page packet includes exercises on every aspect of the writing process, from crafting sentences and paragraphs, to proofreading, revising, and...

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!

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...

In this language arts worksheet, students read 16 sentences and mark a C if the sentence is complete and an F is there is a sentence fragment.

In this proof reading instructional activity, students read a paragraph about Jai Alai, Arguably "The Fastest Sport in the World." Students locate and correct 10 errors in the paragraph.

In this proof reading instructional activity, learners read a paragraph about Ellis Island. Students locate and correct 10 errors in the paragraph.

In this editing instructional activity, learners read and edit an article about the national park, Wind Cave, and find the 10 errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Pupils correct each error they find.

In this editing a paragraph worksheet, students read and edit a short paragraph on "How Dry Can a Desert Get?" and find the ten errors involving capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct the errors.

For this editing learning exercise, students read and edit a short paragraph on "The First Mail-Order Catalog" to find the ten errors involving capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.

In this editing learning exercise, students read a short paragraph on "Hot Dogs!" and find the 10 errors in the paragraph dealing with capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.

In this editing instructional activity, students read a short paragraph on "Longest Road on Earth" and find the ten errors involving capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.

In this writer's resource worksheet, students edit and proofread their own writing and that of their peers as they 11 marks listed on this sheet. Meanings and examples accompany each mark.

Designed to build proofreading skills in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and language usage, as well as proofreading for clarity, transition, and order, this workbook is packed with activities for all kinds of writing.

Practice proper apostrophe use with a grammar activity. After reviewing contractions, plural names, and possessive nouns, kids fix and rewrite 10 incorrect sentences.

For this proof reading instructional activity, students find ten errors in a paragraph about Betsy Ross. They correct the errors using standard editing symbols.