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Every-Day Edit: President Gerald R. Ford
For this proofreading worksheet, students identify spelling, capitalization, punctuation and grammar mistakes in a descriptive paragraph and use editing marks to correct them.
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Every-Day Edit - Harriet Tubman
Young editors use this half-sheet paragraph about Harriet Tubman to practice proofreading skills. Errors needing correction include spelling, quotation marks, commas, there/their usage, and capitalization.
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Every-Day Edits: Ellis Island
In this proof reading instructional activity, learners read a paragraph about Ellis Island. Students locate and correct 10 errors in the paragraph.
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Every-Day Edit: Fastest Sport in the World
In this proof reading instructional activity, students read a paragraph about Jai Alai, Arguably "The Fastest Sport in the World." Students locate and correct 10 errors in the paragraph.
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Every-Day Edit: Ida B. Wells
Practice language convention usage with this brief proofreading exercise. Together your class can verbally correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Ida B. Wells. Then individual learners can rewrite it or mark the hard...
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Every-Day Edit: Volcanic Iceland
In this editing a paragraph activity, learners read and edit a short paragraph on "Volcanic Iceland" and find the ten errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct the errors.
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Every-Day Edits: Betsy Ross
For this proof reading instructional activity, students find ten errors in a paragraph about Betsy Ross. They correct the errors using standard editing symbols.
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Eei Communictions: Standard Proofreading Marks
This resource presents a table of standard proofreading marks. The table indicates whether the marks would be used in the margin or in the text, but does not give examples of the marks in use.
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Spelling police.com: Proofreaders' Marks
A general list of marks and symbols a proofreader may use in correcting and editing a piece of written work.