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Morning Work
First graders complete their morning work. For this math and editing lesson, 1st graders complete addition and subtraction problems, edit sentences and share their answers. Students can also create math problems of their own.
Scholastic
Smart Quotes Mini-Lesson
Prepare for an interview project with a set of worksheets about asking questions and quoting people. After completing a grammar exercise about quotation marks, kids write out the questions they want to ask their interviewee, and record...
Dorling Kindersley
Punctuation Practice
Need some punctuation practice? Challenge your third or fourth graders' editing skills with a helpful instructional activity on punctuation. After naming different types of punctuation marks, they rewrite a paragraph that has multiple...
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Edit Your Story
In this writing activity, 4th graders read a checklist of editing reminders and practice editing a paragraph on the activity.
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Proofreading Sentences
In this grammar editing activity, students edit five sentences to correct any grammatical or spelling errors. Students rewrite the sentences on the line.
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Getting to Know You Through Peer Editing
Sixth graders get to know their classmates through 'personalized' sentences that feature one student each day, and offer practice in proofreading and peer-editing related to capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and/or grammar rules.
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Essay Editing Lesson Plan
Learners discuss reasons to edit their written work and observe how to correctly use proofreaders marks to correct a paragraph. In groups of four, students exchange previously written papers and write suggestions and comments for...
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Nouns Clauses- Complete the Sentences
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read ten sentences and choose the correct completion from two choices. There is no apparent theme.
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab
In this vocabulary worksheet, students decipher the correct choice of word to complete the sentence. All words begin with the letter "B."
Library of Congress
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the best-known pieces of American literature. An eBook from the Library of Congress provides access to an early edition of the text. Original layout and illustrations are preserved within.
Curated OER
Editor Travels U.S. Fixing Errors on Signs
An interesting article on editors helps young writers understand the conventions of written English. They read a news article about an editor traveling America correcting spelling and punctuation errors on signs. They discuss proper...
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Finding More Violators
In this editing worksheet, students read twelve sentences and find the word or punctuation mark in each sentence that is used incorrectly. Students underline the mistake and write the correct word or punctuation mark at the end of each...
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Daily Writing
In this writing worksheet, students practice proofreading skills by using editing marks to fix one sentence, then rewriting it correctly. Students also examine a humorous picture and write what they think will happen next.
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Language Arts: Quotation Marks Practice
After reviewing the eight rules for using quotation marks, class members complete worksheets as independent practice and review how these punctuation marks change the meaning of a sentence. Additional worksheets are provided for homework.
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Peer Editing
Sudents read and critique three of their fellow classmates' science fiction short stories on three consecutive days for mechanics, short story elements, style, and informational elements.
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Writing Lesson Idea: Self-Editing
Twelfth graders study the various steps used in writing: brainstorming, rough draft, asking; Does it make sense? and Have I left anything out? revising, self-editing. They examine the process of reading a piece of writing, repeating...
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How Do Adjectives Improve Writing?
Using adjectives to create vivid descriptions is the focus of exercises in this resource. A cloze reading activity asks class members to add missing adjectives to passages from Mark Teague's The Lost and Found. They then read Teague's...
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Capitalization and Punctuation
First and second graders explore writing conventions. They add question marks or periods to the end of teacher generated sentences on sentence strips. They locate punctuation marks in poems and write original sentences using appropriate...
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Proofreading Marks
In this proofreading worksheet, students learn six common proofreading marks and their meanings. There is an example sentence for each mark. There are no questions for students.
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Daily Writing
For this editing and grammar worksheet, students practice using editing marks to fix grammatically incorrect sentences. After fixing them, students re-write the corrected sentences fixing all of the errors they found.
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Quotation Quiz
In this quotation marks worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions where they choose which sentences are written correctly. Students complete 5 problems.
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Proofreading Practice
Students investigate proofreading marks. In this proofreading lesson, students evaluate a paragraph for editing mistakes. Students correct mistakes and return to the teacher.
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Expressing Future Time, Part 2
In this similar meanings worksheet, students read a sentence and analyze its meaning. From three choices, students match the sentence that has the same meaning.
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Annie's Gifts - Daily Proofreading
In this daily proofreading worksheet, learners correct the sentences on their grammar and punctuation from the story Annie's Gifts. Students correct 5 sentences total.