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Transforming Fairy Tales: Editing
Students edit fairy tales. For this transforming fairy tales lesson, students edit their previously written fairy tales for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. Students also have the opportunity to peer edit.
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Strategy for Spelling Success Instant Activity
Second graders write to dictated sentences. In this high-use words spelling assessment, 2nd graders respond to three dictated sentences. Following the assessment lesson, students self-check the sentences and respond to a question on...
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Here's an Instant Activity for February 16, 2004
Fourth graders complete a spelling activity that also improves their proofreading skills. In this spelling lesson, 4th graders read a list of words and proofread to find the word spelled correctly in each row.
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Proofreading Exercise
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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Write It Right
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.
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Proofreading Marks
In this proofreading worksheet, students learn six common proofreading marks and their meanings. There is an example sentence for each mark. There are no questions for students.
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Advanced Paragraph Correction #5
In this paragraph correction worksheet, students read a paragraph about a man giving a speech. Students correct 8 errors by choosing the proper answer from 6 choices.
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Present Tense
In this error correction worksheet, students read 10 sentences that may have mistakes in grammar. Students rewrite and correct the errors in the sentences. Note: There is a teacher's name at the top of the page.
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Advanced Paragraph Correction #9
In this advanced paragraph correction instructional activity, students read a text about urban planning. Students correct the errors in 8 sentences by selecting the right answer from 5 possible choices.
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Advanced Paragraph Correction #7
In this error correction worksheet, students read a paragraph about the Spitzer Space Telescope. Students correct 8 errors by selecting the right answers from 5 choices. There are 8 mistakes to correct.
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Grade 2 Language Arts Review Quiz
In this language arts review worksheet, students complete 6 general review questions pertaining to alphabetical order, vowel sounds, analogies and proofreading and correcting errors.
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Grade 2 Language Arts Review Quiz
In this language arts review quiz instructional activity, learners complete 6 general questions pertaining to proofreading, spelling, parts of speech and phonics.
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Error Correction in a Letter
In this ESL friendly letter correction worksheet, students read a letter and look for the 20 mistakes. Students correct the errors in the friendly letter.
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Error Correction- Conditionals
In this error correction worksheet, students read 14 sentences and determine if they need grammar corrections. Students rewrite sentences that contain errors.
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Where Are the Mistakes?
In this proofreading worksheet, learners read 17 sentences and look for errors in spelling, grammar, verb agreement and punctuation. Students correct the mistakes. This is intended for ESL learners.
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Verb Pattern Error Correction
In this proofreading and editing activity, students analyze 13 sentences, some that contain errors. Students determine if there are mistakes and correct those they see.
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Error Correction Worksheet
In this error correction worksheet, students analyze 22 sentences which may contain errors in grammar. Students decide if there are mistakes and correct them.
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Actual Errors in Newspapers
For this journalism editing worksheet, students look at 26 newspaper headlines and explain what is incorrect about each one. Example: Escaped Leopard Believed Spotted.
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Practice Test: Grammar
In this language arts worksheet, learners find grammatical errors in 20 sentences. Students find the error and write each sentences correctly. No line is provided to write on.
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Capital Letters
In this language arts worksheet, learners 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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Five Words Spelled Wrong
In this spelling worksheet, students examine 3 boxes with 10 spelling words in each. Students analyze each word and choose the 5 that are spelled incorrectly and write the correct spelling underneath. This page is from the UK.
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Printing Practice- Letters I-L And Numbers 10-13
In this language arts worksheet, students practice printing one example of each upper and lower case letter Ii, Jj, Kk and Ll as well as the numbers 10-13. Students proofread one sentence and generate one sentence about a picture.
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Quotation Mark Exercise
In this grammar worksheet, students read a review on quotation marks and punctuation. Then they read through ten sentences identifying whether the sentence has correct punctuation or not. If it does not, students fix the error(s).
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Feature Stories
Pupils are taught the basics of writing a feature story. They choose a topic for research. Students use the library and internet research skills to investigate their topic. They proofread their own writing or the writing of others,...