Education World
Every-Day Edit: Rabbits
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about rabbits. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Education World
Every-Day Edit: Alaska, the 49th State
For this editing activity, learners read and edit a short passage entitled, "Alaska, the 49th State." Students look for 10 errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar.
Education World
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.
Education World
Every-Day Edit: Basketball's Beginnings
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about basketball's beginnings. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
Education World
Every Day Edit - Marie Curie
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Marie Curie. The errors range from punctuation, spelling, grammar, and capitalization.
Education World
Every Day Edit - Gandhi
In this everyday editing instructional activity, students correct mistakes in a short paragraph about Gandhi. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Education World
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.
Education World
Every-Day Edits: Ellis Island
In this proof reading instructional activity, learners read a paragraph about Ellis Island. Learners locate and correct 10 errors in the paragraph.
Curated OER
Proofreading with Peer Editing
A standard peer editing activity, young writers get into groups and pass their papers to each of their peers in turn; each person checking their peer's paper for spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes. In a fun twist, your class...
Curated OER
To Quote or Not to Quote
Introduce your middle and high schoolers to the correct use of quotation marks. They identify examples of correct and incorrect quotations in magazines and edit a paragraph in groups. Use this lesson as a way to reinforce proofreading...
Scholastic
Smart Quotes Mini-Lesson
Prepare for an interview project with a set of worksheets about asking questions and quoting people. After completing a grammar exercise about quotation marks, kids write out the questions they want to ask their interviewee, and record...
Curated OER
Avoiding Run-On Sentences (II)
Polish the writing skills of your emerging writers by eliminating run-on sentences in their work. Discuss the ways to correct run-ons before releasing your class to work on this 20-sentence worksheet independently. An answer sheet is...
Independence Middle School
Eight Parts of Speech Grammar Project
Young grammarians demonstrate their understanding of the eight parts of speech by creating a scrapbook that uses personal stories and photos to illustrate each term. After defining a term, individuals relate and illustrate a personal...
Curated OER
Who am I?
Young scholars develop their writing skills by creating a character sketch about themselves. Students read character sketches, view portraits by famous artists, select one personality traits, and affix a mug shot of themselves into a...