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Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strategies for Editing: Practice 2 (English I Writing)
Proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strategies for Editing: Practice 1 (English I Writing)
Proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strategies for Editing: Practice 3 (English I Writing)
Proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
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Jefferson County School District: Fifth Grade Editing I [Pdf]
Printable editing worksheet designed for 5th graders. Ten questions are included.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise in Writing Concise Sentences
Practice rewriting each of these twelve sentences in a more clear and concise manner. Check each sentence against the answer provided to see how well they match up.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: Similes, Metaphors, Cliches, Hyperbole
This lesson focuses on figurative language used in descriptive writing including similes, metaphors, cliches, hyperbole. It offers multiple links to websites pertaining to figurative language in descriptive and creative writing; an...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Proper Voice, Tense, and Syntax
This lesson focuses on editing voice, verb tense, and syntax. It includes practice exercises.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Subject Verb Agreement
This lesson will provide some tips about how to locate and correct agreement problems; then students will have a chance to practice their skills and feel more confident about writing sentences with subjects and verbs that agree.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Pronoun Reference and Agreement: English Iii Writing
This lesson focuses on pronoun reference and agreement; it also provides an excellent overview of the types of pronouns with practice exercises.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will review the different types of clauses and sentences. You will also use editing strategies to help you add variety to your sentences. A step-by-step...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Comma Usage
In this comma quiz, students read each of two paragraphs and insert necessary commas. When finished with both paragraphs, they click "Explanations" to see the correct comma placements. Java is required. Links are also provided to "Guide...
Harvard University
Harvard Writing Center: Tips on Grammar, Punctuation and Style
Rather than lists of rules, this site provides practical advice on the use of commas, semicolons, dashes, hyphens, abbreviations, acronyms, split infinitives, "this," "that," italics, and underlining. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
Scholastic
Scholastic: Write It: Memoir
Write It Memoir offers a complete writing workshop to develop your personal story. Search your memory through the brainstorming activities to launch your piece. Draft a map of the memories along with reading other models. As the process...
George Mason University
George Mason University: Writing Across the Curriculum: Teaching With Writing
Find a rationale, practices and strategies, and resources for incorporating writing in all areas of the curriculum. Learn how to write clear assignments and some methods to make grading of writing more efficient and effective....
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Writing Numbers Exercise
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with writing numbers.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: A Gap Fill Exercise: Whatever Happened to the News
In this exercise, students read the article "Whatever Happened to the News?", and stop wherever boxes are provided to add commas if needed or small x if none is necessary. When finished, they check answers. Hints are also available. Java...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: A Student's Perspective on Writing
Eli tells us what it is like to have dysgraphia. Regina Richards, a well-known expert on dysgraphia (and Eli's mom), explains how to help children who struggle with the challenges Eli describes. Practical techniques discussed include...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Grammar (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on finding and fixing grammar errors in your writing. It includes strategies for locating errors such as reading your paper aloud to see if your are...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Grammar (English Ii Writing)
This lesson focuses on finding and fixing grammar errors in your writing. It includes strategies for locating errors such as reading your paper aloud to see if your are missing words. It also provides practice with subject-verb agreement...
University of Sydney (Australia)
University of Sydney: Module 3 Unit 1: Planning Your Essay
This unit index contains links with to guide students through the process of planning a multi-paragraph argumentative essay. Students will learn how to interpret the essay question, develop a writing plan, thesis, writing the argument,...
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Jefferson County School District: Fourth Grade Editing [Pdf]
This site, which is provided for by the Jefferson County School District, gives a printable editing worksheet designed for 4th grade.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz in Punctuation
It this interactive punctuation quiz, students read sentences or passages and insert the necessary punctuation and capitalization. After each answer, students select "Grammar's Version" to reveal the corrected passage and an explanation....
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Punctuation Exercise
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with punctuating sentences.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Accept/except Spelling Exercise
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice in applying the use of accept and except. L.11-12.2b Spelling