Editing and Proofreading Lesson Plans & Worksheets

Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Editing and Proofreading Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A detailed source for professional editing and proofreading strategies. Links on the right offer several pages of text for both editing and proofreading, including guidelines and samples for each.

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BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Writing: Editing and Proofreading

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

This BBC Skillswise introduction to editing and proofreading shows how to check spelling and grammar at different stages of writing. Includes nine downloadable practice sheets for different stages and types of writing. [1:04]

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Editing: Practice Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

You will proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Strategies for Editing: Practice 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A learning module that teaches students about editing their writing in four mini-lessons: Introduction, Avoiding Coma Catastrophes, Placing Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Em Dashes Like a Pro, and and Putting It All Together.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Strategies for Editing: Practice 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A learning module that teaches students about editing their writing in four mini-lessons: Introduction, To Be or Not to Be in Capitals. That Is the Question, How Do You Spell It: Shakesspere, Shakysper, Shaxpeer, or Shakespeare?, and...

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Strategies for Editing: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A learning module that teaches students about editing strategies in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Spelling Spectacularly, Capitalizing Confidently, Punctuating Perfectly, and Putting It All Together.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Edit Drafts for Grammar, Mechanics, and Spelling

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

In this lesson, you will learn to edit your final draft using a step by step approach to complete the final stage of writing called editing.

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This slideshow tutorial focuses on editing techniques for grammar and mechanical errors; it states three ways that grammar should be reviewed in papers: Microsoft Word's grammar check, review each sentence backwards, and have peer or...

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Editing: Making Good Better and Better Great

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This PDF lesson plan provides learners with an understanding of the importance of editing and proofreading at the AP level. The teacher distributes various examples of student work and asks the students to read and comment on the writing...

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Other

Jefferson County School District: Fifth Grade Editing I [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards

Printable editing worksheet designed for 5th graders. Ten questions are included.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Editing: Practice 2 (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

You will proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Editing: Practice 1 (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

You will proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Editing: Practice 3 (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

You will proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Local Editing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This slideshow lesson focuses on local editing; it defines the term and explains what to look for: clarity, mechanics, and grammar, word choice, sentence structure, paragraph structure, and impact on the reader. It discusses each and...

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Other

Encouraging Students to Edit and Proofread Their Work [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st

PDF page from the New South Wales, Australia, Department of Education and Training that contains suggestions for helping young students edit and proofread their work. It includes a six step process and a student work sample.

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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: 10 Perfect Pieces of Advice on How to Edit Your Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A list of 10 ways to edit your writing.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Edit Drafts for Grammar, Mechanics, and Spelling

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This lesson's focus is limited to the editing process for writing conventions: subject-verb agreement, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Grade 7: Proofreading Practice

For Students 7th Standards

This proofreading exercise requires students to read a paragraph about the contributions of Chinese scientists, find the 5 misspelled words, and type them correctly in the boxes provided. Java is required.

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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Writer's Choice: Grade 9 Proofreading Practice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This site provides 2 exercises in which students proofread passages for errors in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and usage, and then retype the passage correctly. When finished they can click on Answers for feedback.

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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: Similes, Metaphors, Cliches, Hyperbole

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This lesson focuses on figurative language used in descriptive writing including similes, metaphors, cliches, hyperbole. It offers multiple links to websites pertaining to figurative language in descriptive and creative writing; an...

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