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Letters Home

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read a short biography of Jacob Early, a member of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry in 1862. In this Civil War lesson, students rewrite a letter written by him, editing for spelling, grammar and punctuation. Students further discuss...
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Three Reasons Why I Want To Be...

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the process of writing an expository paper. The purpose of the paper is established in the introduction and the supporting details are sequenced in a logical order. The paper possesses punctuation and grammatical...
Worksheet
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Techniques for Quoting Material

For Students 10th - 11th
In this writing learning exercise, students read techniques for quoting material. Students read about how to correctly use quotations, textual references and footnotes, and a bibliography.
Lesson Plan
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Connecting Characters and Themes in Julius Caesar

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders prepare for the literary analysis. They locate, interpret, evaluate and analyze the relationship between a character and the theme. After a lecture/demo, 4th graders write topic and detail sentences, then correctly put...
Interactive
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Proofreading Practice

For Students 6th
In this proofreading practice online worksheet, 6th graders retype three passages correcting errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar and usage, with answers available.
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Proofreading Activity

For Students 5th - 6th
in this proofreading worksheet, students read a set of passages and rewrite, correcting errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar and usage.
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Capitalization Practice

For Students 4th - 6th
In this capitalization worksheet, students circle capitalization errors and add end marks to sentences, capitalize proper nouns, and edit sentences to correct.
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Getting to Know You Through Peer Editing

For Teachers 6th
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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Business Writing Lesson Plan:

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students learn the importance of business writing, including content and presentation. They improve their usage of punctuation and commas.
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Third Grade Editing III

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this language arts worksheet, students correct the errors in capitalization, punctuation and grammar in 10 sentences. Students rewrite each sentence correctly.
Writing
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Intermediate Practical Writing-- "About Your Paycheck"

For Students 4th - 5th
In this practical writing worksheet, students re-write a letter to an employer about a paycheck. Students correct all the errors in grammar and punctuation.
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Fifth Grade Editing

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts learning exercise, students demonstrate proofreading and editing skills by fixing the errors in 10 sentences. Students identify the capitalization, punctuation and grammar errors and rewrite each sentence correctly.
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Sentence Fragments Exercise 3

For Students 5th - 9th
In this sentence fragment worksheet, students are asked to edit and correct a paragraph for errors in capitalization and punctuation. Students must focus on making sure there are no sentence fragments.
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School Day

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in a lesson that involves writing a persuasive essay. They use the prompt of "extending the school day". The paper should contain correct elements of sentence structure with clear purpose that is supported with...
Printables
Carnegie Mellon University

Lab Report

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A set of instructions and a 100-point grading rubric have been designed for writing lab reports. Appropriate for middle schoolers, this lays out what to include for each of the six steps in the scientific method: title, hypothesis,...
Worksheet
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Run-ons, Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 6th - 12th
In this sentence writing worksheet, students are given pairs of sentences with directions to form one new sentence using commas, semicolons and/or conjunctions. Students can self check or trade and grade using the answer key provided.
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Third Grade Editing

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this language arts worksheet, students demonstrate proofreading and editing skills by finding the errors in 10 sentences. Students rewrite the sentences using the correct capitalization, punctuation and grammar.
Interactive
McGraw Hill

Proofreading Exercise

For Students 7th - 9th
In this proofreading activity, students rewrite a paragraph to correct various errors. Students must find and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage.
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Capital Letters

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts activity, students proofread written work for capitalization errors. Students first read the capitalization rules, then put capital letters where they are needed into the right places in a story.
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Friendly Letter Edit

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this letter editing activity, students recopy a 2 paragraph letter to "Francis" from a friend, correcting all spelling, punctuation and capitalization errors. 
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Upside-Down Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read various examples of literature. In groups, they brainstorm a list of views that go against what was in one of the stories. They illustrate the opposite ideas and compile them into a class book. They use each other to...
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Capitalization Practice

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this capitalization worksheet, students rewrite a set of 6 sentences, correcting capitalization errors. Incorrectly capitalized words/phrases are underlined.
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Language Arts Review Quiz #5

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts review worksheet, students complete 6 exercises. Students correct 2 sentences with punctuation and capitalization errors, circle 2 words spelled correctly, circle the words that go together, and choose the correct...
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Write It Right

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this editing worksheet, students read 5 sentences about sports. Students fix the errors in spelling and punctuation. Note: The page does not specify how to mark the mistakes or correct them.