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Contractions, Plural Names, and Possessives: An Editing Exercise WorksheetContractions, Plural Names, and Possessives: An Editing Exercise Worksheet
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Contractions, Plural Names, and Possessives: An Editing Exercise

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Practice proper apostrophe use with a grammar instructional activity. After reviewing contractions, plural names, and possessive nouns, kids fix and rewrite 10 incorrect sentences.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

contractions, possessives, apostrophes, editing, proofreading, punctuation

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Use for a homework assignment or class assessment
  • A good activity for a language arts center, or for a quick warm-up grammar lesson on the board

Classroom Considerations

  • Prompts kids to rewrite sentences to fix the apostrophe; consider having them use proofreading marks instead

Pros

  • Provides an answer key for easy assessment

Cons

  • None

Common Core

L.2.1.a L.3.1.a L.4.1.a L.5.1.a L.6.1.a

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