Activity
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Every-Day Edit: Stock Market Crash 1929

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the stock market crash of 1929. The errors range in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every-Day Edit: Curious George

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing worksheet, pupils correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Curious George. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - National Poetry Month

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about National Poetry Month. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
Activity
Education World

Every-Day Edit: Eleanor Roosevelt

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Eleanor Roosevelt. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling and grammar.
Activity
Education World

Every-Day Edit: Koko the Gorilla

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about a speaking gorilla. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Education World

Every Day Edit - Liberty Day

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Liberty Day. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Activity
Education World

Every-Day Edit: Author Katherine Holabird

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about author Katherine Holabird. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
Interactive
Education World

Every-Day Edit: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
Activity
Education World

Every-Day Edit: Malta

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Malta. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Activity
Education World

Every-Day Edit: Robert F. Kennedy

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Robert F. Kennedy. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Activity
Education World

Every-Day Edit: Kwanzaa

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Kwanzaa. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Lesson Plan
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Language Arts Writing Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners practice writing open-ended questions about a specific topic. They use proper grammar and syntax in their questions that are typed into a word processing file. A rubric is included in this lesson plan to help with assessment.
Interactive
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Whether/Weather/Wether

For Students 5th - 8th
Is it whether, weather, or wether? Learners explore the differences between these three words using examples and descriptions. They conclude by taking an interactive test.
Worksheet
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Where Are the Mistakes?

For Students 4th - 5th
In this proofreading worksheet, students read 17 sentences and look for errors in spelling, grammar, verb agreement and punctuation. Students correct the mistakes. This is intended for ESL students.
Lesson Plan
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Grammar Worksheet

For Teachers 5th
In this grammar worksheet, 5th graders practice using verbs and choose the past progressive form. This is very effective for test preparation.
Lesson Plan
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Grammar Exercises

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students find the words to create each sentence and also they write sentences in negative and interrogative form.
Interactive
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Sentence Superlatives

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this grammar worksheet, students make a sentence by re-ordering the words and punctuation. The sentences use superlatives and only one sentence appears at a time on this interactive worksheet.
PPT
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Rules of Thumb for Diction

For Teachers 7th - 12th
What is the difference between accept and except? Affect and effect? Brilliantly advise your class with the advice in these slides. Definitions of commonly misused words from A-Z help clarify meaning and usage.
PPT
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What Possessed You?

For Teachers 3rd
To review the possessive form, a teacher could use this presentation to help learners cement their understanding of grammar. Using commonly encountered mistakes, it gives students a quiz in which they identify the correct word for use in...
Worksheet
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Time Words/Tenses Review

For Students 4th - 6th
For homework, give your class this review sheet. This practice opportunity contains 42 sentences, and your learner must edit the sentences by correcting their mistakes. Most of the mistakes are directly related to verb tense. Great...
Worksheet
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Time Words/Tenses Review

For Students 6th - 9th
Focus on correct verb usage with your English language learners. There are 42 sentences listed; can your class correct them? The sentences are short, and the major errors are in verb tense.
Worksheet
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Capitalization

For Students 6th - 9th
In this grammar activity, students proofread, edit, and correct all the capitalization mistakes found in ten sentences. Students share their findings with their classmates.
Interactive
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Stative and Dynamic Verbs

For Students 7th - 9th
In this stative and dynamic verb instructional activity, students identify the section of the sentence which contains a grammatical mistake. Each sentence has four underlined sections from which to choose.
Unit Plan
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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...