Plagued by punctuation or stymied by spelling? Lesson eight in a nine-part series of career education and skills activities introduces the importance of proofreading. Learners categorize common writing errors and construct error-free...

Prepare class members for the SAT Writing and Language exam with a practice test that prepares students for the types of questions and the kind of language used in the exam. Test takers must select the best way to fix poorly...

Young mathematicians analyze computation errors by three hypothetical learners. It begins with a scenario that presents an equation that includes addition, multiplication, division, and subtraction. According to the order of operations,...

In this editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes—including punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar—in a short paragraph about author Virginia Hamilton.

Practice language development and linguistics with a lesson featuring audio recordings. As kids record the ways they pronounce words and sentences, they learn to upload and organize their audio files into iTunes.

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...

A Standardized Test-type of learning exercise on grammatical rules of degree awaits your students. They carefully look at ten sentences and focus on the parts of each sentence that is underlined. If the underlined portion has a mistake,...

Use this with your English language learners or your English grammar classes. Bring your class to the computer lab, and access this website. First they read about the states of being and some common mistakes. Then they complete a short...

In this active and stative verbs worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with present simple and present continuous verbs and correct the mistakes they find in sentences. Students complete 2 activities.

In this proofreading worksheet, students correct the errors in each of 42 sentences. Students write their corrections in verb tenses or time words above the errors.

In this asking for information worksheet, students correct mistakes, join phrases, and write an email, all having to do with information. Students correct 8 sentences, connect 10 phrases to make 5 sentences, and write 1 email.

In this quotation marks activity, learners choose the correct usage of quotation marks used in sentences. Students choose the correct sentence for 10 problems.

In this abbreviations learning exercise, students choose the correct abbreviation in the sentences. Students choose the correct abbreviation for 11 sentences.

In this verbs review learning exercise, students practice their grammar skills as they identify the verb mistakes in 7 sentences.

In this find the error worksheet, students read and analyze an extract from an article in a magazine and then proof the article for mistakes in apostrophes, articles, punctuation and spelling.

Students examine synonyms and practice finding appropriate synonyms in a thesaurus. In this use synonyms to make your writing vivid lesson, students identify the correct usage of synonyms. Students replace incorrect synonyms in...

In this grammar worksheet, students read an extract from a national magazine for teachers. Students locate a mistake in either apostrophes, articles, singular/plurals, or spelling.

In this grammar worksheet, students read a paragraph about a sit-com. Students locate mistakes in apostrophes, articles, singular/plurals, and spelling.

In this word order mistakes worksheet, students read each sentence and correct the mistakes of word order or verb tense, then write their own sentences.

In this proofreading worksheet, learners examine 20 sentences that include common English mistakes. Students rewrite each of the sentences correctly.

In this various words and phrases worksheet, students choose the correct word or phrase to complete the sentences. Students complete 50 multiple choice questions.

In this ESL "missing word" activity, students add the missing words to sentences in order to complete them correctly, then write 4 sentences of their own.

In this to have got worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences, correct sentences, look at pictures and write, and more for to phrase to have got. Students complete 5 activities.

In this ESL spelling worksheet, students will focus on error correction and editing. Students will read a short passage correcting any spelling mistakes or omissions from the article.