Plagued by punctuation or stymied by spelling? Lesson eight in a nine-part series of career education and skills activities introduces the importance of proofreading. Learners categorize common writing errors and construct error-free...

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

Looking to improve your classes literacy program? Then look no further. This comprehensive collection of resources includes worksheets and activities covering everything from r-controlled vowels and consonant digraphs, to the...

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.

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.

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...

An array of reading comprehension, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary activities are at your fingertips with a language arts practice packet. Second, third, and fourth graders work on various skills using reading passages and word banks,...

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.

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, learners 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.

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...

For 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.

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

Introduce your classes to the Art of Rhetoric with a lesson that focuses on Aristotle's persuasive appeals and how they have been used, both ethically and unethically, to influence opinion.

You will learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct spelling. L.9-10.2 Cap/Punc/Spell

You will learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct spelling.

In this lesson, you'll be reminded why spelling is important; a three-step strategy to follow when you edit your written work or the work of your peers; when to rely on the spell-checker and when to override it with your own good...

This site offers two proofreading exercises in which students proofread for errors in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and usage, and then retype passages correctly. When finished they click Answers for feedback.

You will proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.