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Education World

Every Day Edit - Florence Nightingale

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing instructional activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the Florence Nightingale. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Education World

Every Day Edit - Mother Teresa

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing instructional activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Mother Teresa. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, to spelling.
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Education World

Every Day Edit - Eastern Earthquake

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about earthquakes. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Education World

Every Day Edit - Tarzan is Born

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing instructional activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Tarzan. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Education World

Every Day Edit - Sousa Marches

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about John Philip Sousa. The errors range from punctuation, spelling, grammar, and capitalization.
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Education World

Every Day Edit - Author Virginia Hamilton

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes—including punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar—in a short paragraph about author Virginia Hamilton.
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Education World

Every Day Edit - The Roller Coaster

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the roller coaster. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
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Education World

Every Day Edit - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Education World

Every-Day Edit: President Gerald R. Ford

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this proofreading worksheet, students identify spelling, capitalization, punctuation and grammar mistakes in a descriptive paragraph and use editing marks to correct them.
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Education World

Every Day Edit - Sir Isaac Newton

For Students 3rd - 8th
Practice everyday! Have learners correct grammatical errors in a short paragraph about Sir Isaac Newton. The errors are in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Education World

Every-day Edit: Rubber Duck Voyagers

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Education World

Every-day Edit: Hobo Turned Poet

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Education World

Every Day Edit - President Woodrow Wilson

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing instructional activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about President Woodrow Wilson. The errors range from capitalization, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
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Education World

Every Day Edit - Eloise

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in punctuation, spelling, grammar, and capitalization. The errors occur in a paragraph about the children's book Eloise.
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Education World

Every-Day Edit: How Icy Is Iceland?

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this editing worksheet, student read a 4-sentence paragraph while looking for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammatical errors.
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Curated OER

Find the Error 41

For Students 5th - 7th
In this find the error activity, students will read an excerpt from a promotional leaflet produced by a well known company in which there is a mistake. Students must find the mistake.
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Curated OER

Armadillo

For Students 3rd
In this proof reading worksheet, 3rd graders correct errors in six sentences. Errors may be capitalization errors, punctuation errors, spelling errors, and grammar errors. There are two identical worksheets on this page.
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Curated OER

Every Day Edit - Jim Henson's Muppets

For Students 8th - 10th
Read about Jim Henson's Muppets! Cut this worksheet in two, so that each learner can have a bell-ringer activity. As they read the excerpt, they correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling errors. 
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Curated OER

Find the Error: Apostrophe

For Students 6th - 12th
Your emerging editors review a newspaper advertisement and hunt for the single grammatical error included. They identify what kind of mistake it is and circle that from a list of six possibilities. Grammatical errors may include:...
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Education World

Every Day Edit - Pablo Picasso

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about Pablo Picasso's interesting life in this short editing activity. Use the half-sheet to assess learners on their ability to track down errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. 
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Education World

Every Day Edit - Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Students 3rd - 8th
Develop editing skills every day with these Every-Day Edits! This bell-ringer focuses on Rosa Parks and the infamous Montgomery Bus Boycott. As they read, learners search for errors in punctuation, grammar, spelling, and...
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Education World

Every-Day Edit: Mother's Day

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Mother's Day. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
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Education World

Every-Day Edit: Hot Dogs!

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this editing learning exercise, learners 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.
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K12 Reader

Comparative Adjectives: Words That End in Y

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
What do messy, dreamy, and lucky have in common? They are all adjectives that trade their -y for -ier in the comparative form! Learners practice the vowel shift with twenty adjectives, all of which end in -y.