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Every-day Edit: Hobo Turned Poet

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Parallelism, Including Correlative Conjunctions and Comparisons

For Students 7th - 10th
After reading the first reference page about parallel structure using correlative conjunctions, young learners rewrite nine sentences with errors in parallelism. Even the strongest writers in your language arts class could benefit from...
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Editing Informal Letters

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
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Error Analysis

For Students 4th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students read the sentence and then rewrite it with grammatical corrections. There are 15 sentences in this worksheet to correct.
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Worksheet on Commas

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students investigate the proper use of commas by reading 20 sentences and inserting commas when necessary. Students then read the comma rules and write a sentence using the rule indicated. Students read a...
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The Run-On Sentence

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Explore grammar rules by completing a worksheet. In this sentence structure lesson, kids define run-on sentences and read sample sentences to determine whether they are complete or incomplete. There is also a space for the writer to edit...
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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Made Easy

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Middle and high schoolers check their writing for pronoun-antecedent agreement. After identifying the pronouns in their writing, they then complete a table with the pronouns and corresponding antecedents, making revisions as necessary.
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Pronoun Agreement

For Students 5th - 6th
Twenty sentences contain an underlined phrase or pronoun that needs correction. This is fine-detail work and is most appropriate to advanced level grammarians who would benefit from, or be stimulated by, what others might consider...
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Error Correction Worksheet

For Students 5th - 6th
In this error correction worksheet, students analyze 22 sentences which may contain errors in grammar. Students decide if there are mistakes and correct them.
PPT
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Verb Forms

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Regular and irregular verb forms are outlined in this catchy PowerPoint. After discussing the infinitive, simple present, simple past, past participle, and present participle forms of verbs, your scholars take a quick test...
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Unit 8: Proofreading

For Teachers 6th - 12th
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...
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Adjectives: Finding Errors in Sentences

For Students 5th
In this adjectives worksheet, 5th graders proofread 10 sentences to find the errors. They correct the errors by putting the adjectives in the proper position in each sentence.
Interactive
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Repairing Run-On Sentences

For Students 6th - 7th
For this run-on sentences worksheet, students complete a ten question multiple choice on-line interactive exercise. Students read a sentence and indicate the correct way to write it without it being a run-on sentence.
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Correcting Sentences

For Students 11th - 12th
In this grammar instructional activity, students read 20 sentences about everyday conversation. Students rewrite each sentence correctly, checking for apostrophe errors.
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Elementary Progress Test

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ESL progress test, students complete a 3 part assessment of basic grammar and sentence writing. Students correct errors in 6 sentences, complete 9 questions with the correct question word and write 5 sentences using key words...
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Every-Day Edit: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing instructional activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Alexander Graham Bell. The 10 errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every-Day Edit: Hot Dogs!

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Every-Day Edit: Anne Frank

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical errors in a short paragraph about Anne Frank. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
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Every-Day Edit: Harry Potter

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical errors in a short paragraph about Harry Potter. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit - The Hope Diamond

For Students 3rd - 8th
Young grammarians correct mistakes in a short paragraph about one of the most famous diamonds in the world, the Hope Diamond. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, and grammar, to spelling. This would make a perfect seasonal...
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Every-Day Edit: The King of Castles

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this editing worksheet about Windsor Castle, pupils read and edit a short paragraph. Learners look for 10 errors in capitalization punctuation, spelling and/or grammar.
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Beginning Sentence Completion 3

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this sentence correction learning exercise, students correct the mistakes in each of 6 sentences. The errors are in grammar and word usage. Students write the sentences correctly.
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Worksheet 12 What's the Right Meaning?

For Students 4th - 5th
For this correcting errors worksheet, students read two sentences in each of ten questions. The second sentence in each item has an error in meaning. Students find the error in the word or phrase and cross it out. Students write the...
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Test Your Grammar skills Using Determiners 2

For Students 4th - 5th
In this grammar worksheet, students proofread 15 sentences, correcting any errors with nouns and determiners. Example: "this tall buildings" has an error and should be "this tall building." There is no information on the page and no...