Young scholars explore interactive web sites to improve their editing and proofreading skills. Using the SMART Board, students identify capitalization and punctuation errors in a given sentence. Young scholars discuss proofreading...

Editing a letter isn't quite the same thing as fixing an autocorrected word on your phone, but it's an important skill that can help kids with their language arts skills. Young readers take a look at a short letter before identifying the...

For this proofreading worksheet, students identify spelling, capitalization, punctuation and grammar mistakes in a descriptive paragraph and use editing marks to correct them.

In this editing a paragraph activity, learners read and edit a short paragraph on "Volcanic Iceland" and find the ten errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct the errors.

Practice language convention usage with this brief proofreading exercise. Together your class can verbally correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Ida B. Wells. Then individual learners can rewrite it or mark the hard...

Learners correct errors in spelling and usage in a quick, six-line proofreading exercise. Makes a nice warm-up and reinforces editing skills. I've seen work like this called Daily Oral Language (D.O.L) practice; the class reviews the...

Pupils proofread a short paragraph about Carl Sandburg. The errors span capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Useful as a warm-up and language conventions review. Go over it together as a class verbally and have individual...

Young editors use this half-sheet paragraph about Harriet Tubman to practice proofreading skills. Errors needing correction include spelling, quotation marks, commas, there/their usage, and capitalization.

Some self-paced writing resources are just better than others. This one is great. The 205-page packet includes exercises on every aspect of the writing process, from crafting sentences and paragraphs, to proofreading, revising, and...

An extensive collection of lessons and activities includes many writing, grammar, and proofreading exercises. With templates and worksheets that cover several steps in the writing process, from sentence to paragraph to essay, this...

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.

In this proof reading instructional activity, learners read a paragraph about Ellis Island. Students locate and correct 10 errors in the paragraph.

Elementary schoolers explore writing conventions. First they play a ball toss game to practice spelling high frequency words. (A link to a 2nd grade list is attached.) The class works together to correct spelling, punctuation, and...

In this editing instructional activity, learners read and edit an article about the national park, Wind Cave, and find the 10 errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Pupils correct each error they find.

For this editing a paragraph worksheet, students read and edit a short paragraph on "How Dry Can a Desert Get?" and find the ten errors involving capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct the errors.

For this editing learning exercise, students read and edit a short paragraph on "The First Mail-Order Catalog" to find the ten errors involving capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.

In this editing learning exercise, students read a short paragraph on "Hot Dogs!" and find the 10 errors in the paragraph dealing with capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.

In this editing instructional activity, students read a short paragraph on "Longest Road on Earth" and find the ten errors involving capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.

Designed to build proofreading skills in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and language usage, as well as proofreading for clarity, transition, and order, this workbook is packed with activities for all kinds of writing.

For this proof reading instructional activity, students find ten errors in a paragraph about Betsy Ross. They correct the errors using standard editing symbols.

Learners edit and revise a news story picked out by the teacher. For this editing lesson plan, students edit in AP style and then revise the story. It should have no errors in the end.

Misplaced modifiers can alter the meaning of a sentence, and take away from a writer's intended message. Use the reference sheet and activity to show middle schoolers how to edit confusing sentences with misplaced modifiers. A great...

Listen to the sound of children's fingers flying across their keyboards as they perform these fun typing lessons. From creating alphabet books and multimedia presentations to researching presidents and writing class...

Eighth graders write and proofread dictated sentences. In this spelling lesson, 8th graders practice writing 4 dictated sentences. They proofread the sentences for spelling, written conventions, apostrophes, plurals, "ie"/"ei" spellings,...