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Every-day Edit: Rubber Duck Voyagers
Learners correct errors in spelling and usage in a quick, six-line proofreading exercise. Makes a nice warm-up and reinforces editing skills. I've seen work like this called Daily Oral Language (D.O.L) practice; the class reviews the...
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Every-day Edit: Hobo Turned Poet
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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Practice Book: The Boy Who Saved Baseball
An array of reading comprehension, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary activities are at your fingertips with a language arts practice packet. Second, third, and fourth graders work on various skills using reading passages and word banks,...
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Animals A to Z: Gecko
For this editing sentences worksheet, students read and edit five sentences about geckos to find ten errors involving capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.
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Animals A to Z: Eagle
In this editing sentences worksheet, students read and edit six sentences about eagles to find ten errors involving capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct the errors found.
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Animals A to Z: Flamingo
In this editing sentences worksheet, students read and edit six sentences about flamingos to find ten errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.
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Malapropisms
What's the difference between an allegory and an alligator? Fifth graders work with malapropisms to determine the meanings of words that sound alike. Five sentences challenge them to find the malapropism and change it to the correct...
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Mistakes That English Native Speakers Make 3
For this grammar worksheet, students analyze 20 sentences and mark the one error in each. Students look for errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling or writing style. This page is intended for ESL adults, but is usable for proofreading...
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Mistakes That English Native Speakers Make 4
In this common English mistakes instructional activity, students read 20 sentences and identify the mistakes in each. Students then categorize the mistakes as apostrophe, articles, capital letters, clumsy style, commas, extra or missing...
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English Skills Assignment
In this English skills activity, students complete 12 different activities covering numerous topics, including alliteration, proof-reading, root words, vowels, consonants, parts of speech and more. Students can earn 59 total points on...
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English Skills 6.206
In this English skills worksheet, students complete 12 English skill activities of various topics. These topics include alliterations, rood words, vowels, consonants, parts of speech, anagrams, word meanings and proof-reading. Students...
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English Skills Assignment 6.204
For this English skills worksheet, students complete 12 English skill activities of various topics. These topics include onomatopoeia, word endings, root words, vowels, consonants, parts of speech, anagrams, spelling, and proof-reading....
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Intermediate Sentence Correction - 5
In this sentence correction worksheet, students proofread and make correction to 5 out of 6 sentences. They correct the slang terms, verb tenses, and spelling in the sentences. They recognize the one sentence that does not need any...
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Find the Error 49
In this language arts worksheet, students examine a newspaper article which appeared in print in the U.K. Students identify the errors in grammar, spelling or punctuation. In this particular text, there are several errors in the use of...
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Mechanics: Section 1
In this online interactive mechanics review worksheet, students examine 10 sentences or phrases and select the appropriate revision for each sentences with regards to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Students then submit their...
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Mechanics: Section 2
In this online interactive mechanics review worksheet, learners examine 10 sentences and select the appropriate revision for each sentences with regards to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Students then submit their answers to...
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Mechanics: Section 1, #2
In this online interactive mechanics review worksheet, students examine 10 sentences and select the appropriate revision for each sentences with regards to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Students then submit their answers to...
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Mechanics: Section 1, #4
In this online interactive mechanics review activity, learners examine 10 sentences or phrases. They select the appropriate revision for each sentence with regards to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Students then submit their...
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Mechanics: Section 2
In this online interactive mechanics review learning exercise, students examine 10 sentences or phrases. They select the appropriate revision for each sentences with regards to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Students then...
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Spelling Connections Grade 6: Acronyms and Abbreviations
For this abbreviations and acronyms worksheet, students analyze 9 pictures and write the acronym or abbreviation suggested by each. Students then proofread a list of 12 abbreviations and acronyms and write them correctly. There is no...
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Proofreading Practice
In this proofreading worksheet, students read a short paragraph, find 5 misspelled words and spell each correctly in boxes beneath the paragraph. Worksheet is part of the Glencoe Online site.
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Proofreading Practice
In this proofreading worksheet, students read a paragraph and find 5 misspelled words, spelling each word correctly in a box beneath the paragraph.
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Proofreading Practice
In this proofreading learning exercise, students read a short paragraph, finding 5 misspelled words and rewriting them correctly in boxes beneath the paragraph.
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Proofreading Practice #2
In this proofreading worksheet, students read a brief paragraph, find 5 misspelled words and write them correctly in boxes beneath the paragraph.