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Concise Writing Exercises

For Students 7th - 11th
Are your pupils' essays full of long, wordy sentences? Help them to write more concise sentences with this practice worksheet, which provides twenty long sentences for your young editors to proofread. Use the activity as a homework...
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Writing: Stamp of Approval

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners write a good title and edit their essay.  In this writing lesson, students examine several examples of good titles and discuss what makes them effective.  Learners relate this to the sign on a building and discuss ways to create...
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Daily Language Practice Builds Skills, Test Scores

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students develop their proofreading skills. In this daily language practice lesson, students improve their writing skills as they edit passages. The editing work encompasses capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.
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Editing Skills

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, learners read ten sentences and find the punctuation mistakes in each one and then correct them as needed.
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Editing Skills

For Students 7th - 9th
For this grammar worksheet, students read fourteen sentences and find the spelling mistakes in each one. Students correct each spelling mistake found.
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Writing: Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, and Descriptive

For Teachers 6th - 9th
If you are interested in having a basic framework for teaching expository, narrative, persuasive, and descriptive writing, this resource may help; however, you will have to find information on the different forms of writing to share with...
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Lesson Plan 18: Cleaning It Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Careful proofreading is an important step in the writing process.  After guided practice using a provided worksheet that details common grammar concepts, young writers refer to the worksheet as they proofread their own work. Although the...
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Blinn College

The Writing Process

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Lead your learners through the different stages of the writing process. Show them this presentation as they work through a writing assignment, breaking it up over several days of work. You might also post this on a class website as a...
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The Writing Process

For Teachers Pre-K - 9th
Introducing your emergent writers to the writing process? Consider using this presentation that gives a clear overview of the steps involved in producing a piece of writing. The elements of an essay are then introduced; however, the only...
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Literary Analysis Essay Review Sheet

For Students 7th - 12th
In this literary analysis peer editing activity, students share their essays with 4 classmates who read the essays and comment regarding the 3 questions listed on the sheet.
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Narrative Essay Review Sheet

For Students 5th - 10th
In this narrative essay peer editing instructional activity, students share their narrative essays with 4 classmates who read the essays and comment regarding the 3 questions listed on the sheet.
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Keyboarding - Complete the Paragraphs

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read a paragraph that is missing vowels and contains other errors as well. They proofread, fill in vowels, type, edit and print the corrected paragraph.
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Sentence Fragments Exercise 3

For Students 5th - 9th
In this sentence fragment activity, students are asked to edit and correct a paragraph for errors in capitalization and punctuation. Students must focus on making sure there are no sentence fragments.
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Novelinks

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Writing Assignment

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Ask learners to focus on one scene in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in order to write an analytical essay about Twain's ideas surrounding childhood. The final assignment in a unit, this writing prompt requires learners to use...
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Feeding the Soul

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students share memories of a special meal. They research, write and peer edit a newspaper column about a favorite food associated with Thanksgiving (or other holiday or celebration).
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Virginia Department of Education

Editing and Proofreading

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This task is best utilized after a rough draft revision is completed. Writers pair-up and identify when the author uses the passive voice, clichés, and wordiness.  Basic examples for the revision points are provided for the instructor to...
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Intermediate Paragraph Correction #8

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
If you are looking for a worksheet to challenge intermediate English learners on verb tense, syntax, and punctuation, you might want to check out this worksheet. Readers select the correct revisions to a passage in eight multiple choice...
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Resume Writing Workshop

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
The ability to write a concise and effective resume is an essential skill for those seeking employment. Prepare your pupils for the working world with a resume-writing assignment. Start off by showing them this presentation, which...
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Putting Away Your Inner Editor

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Personify your Inner Editor. After making a richly detailed paper doll of your Inner Editor, put him or her in your locker, under your bed or buried in a time capsule in your backyard, but not near where you like to write. Refuse to...
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Wordiness

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Refine the writing of your class members with this quick PowerPoint. Wordiness can kill effective writing, making it boring and indirect. Help your writers cut out some of the unneeded words by pairing this presentation with a piece of...
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Quotation Marks Exercise

For Students 5th - 9th
In this quotation marks worksheet, students must edit sentences for quotation marks and underline words that should be italicized.
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Comma Exercise 5

For Students 5th - 9th
For this comma exercise worksheet, students are given seventeen sentences to proofread and edit inserting commas where necessary.
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Peanut Butter and Jelly: The Importance of Detailed Procedures

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students write a list of steps to be taken in making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. They observe as the instructor literally follows each step. After realizing the importance of clear communication, students write a scientific...
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Waterford Union High School

Writing the Persuasive Essay

For Students 6th - 12th
An excellent, in-depth resource would be an asset to your unit on writing an argument essay. It provides an explanation to each part of the essay as well as examples of transition words to strengthen your kids' writing. Additionally, the...

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