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Every Day Edit - The Hope Diamond
Young grammarians correct mistakes in a short paragraph about one of the most famous diamonds in the world, the Hope Diamond. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, and grammar, to spelling. This would make a perfect seasonal...
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Every-Day Edit: Eleanor Roosevelt
For this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Eleanor Roosevelt. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling and grammar.
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Every-Day Edit: America's Poet Laureate
In this everyday editing activity, pupils correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about America's Poet Laureate. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
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Every-Day Edit: Robert F. Kennedy
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Robert F. Kennedy. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every-Day Edit: Malta
In this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Malta. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every Day Edit - "Peanuts" Comic Strip
Young grammarians correct mistakes in a short paragraph about "Peanuts" Comic Strip. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, and grammar, to spelling. This would make a perfect seasonal activity to hand out at the beginning of...
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Every-Day Edit: How Icy Is Iceland?
For this editing instructional activity, student read a 4-sentence paragraph while looking for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammatical errors.
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Every-Day Edit: Rabbits
In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about rabbits. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every Day Edit - Frozen Foods
For this editing instructional activity, students read and edit a short paragraph about frozen foods inventor, Clarence Birdseye, who also founded General Seafood Corporation. Pupils find and correct the ten errors involving...
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Revising My Accessing Books Around the World Informative Paragraph for a Hook to Captivate My Reader
While this is considered optional within the unit it is designed for, pupils would benefit from the listed activities. Working on writing and revising a paragraph about librarians who travel to isolated areas, class members can add some...
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Personal Narrative Paragraphs: Class Quilt
Begin this activity by asking third graders to bring from home pieces of cloth that represent something important to them. (Have extras for students who need them.) They reflect on important events in their lives, compose narrative...
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Peer Editing Checklist
A handout to guide peer editors, this checklist delineates common problems with paragraph structure and specific proofreading items to check. It also provides encouragement about the collaborative part of the writing process. Formats...
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Writing Process-- Revision and Editing
As guided practice, class members work together to revise a model persuasive paragraph. Then they practice independently with their own writing. The included rubric looks at prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, nonfiction text...
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Peer Edit Checklist
N2SIOPSSWTSW anyone? (No 2 Sentences In One Paragraph Should Start with the Same Word.) In addition to checking for sentence variety, editors use colored highlighters to identify different aspects of a peer’s paper.
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Every Day Edit - Jim Henson's Muppets
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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Writing a Newspaper Article
The perfect resource for a beginning journalism teacher or someone designing a journalism unit, this activity prompts students to write a newspaper article. It covers all aspects of the writing process, such as a guided warm-up...
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Beginning Paragraph Correction #8
Readers answer 8 multiple choice questions by selecting the correct revisions to the paragraph provided. The focus is on prepositions, syntax, and parts of speech. A good, quick exercise for ELL classes or review for middle schoolers.
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Intermediate Paragraph Correction #8
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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Intermediate Paragraph Correction #6
Intermediate level ESL classes could benefit from this worksheet that requires reading a passage and correcting the identified errors. The mistakes include verb tense, spelling, and syntax. This might also prove useful for middle schoolers.
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Every Day Edit - First Picture from Space
In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the first picture from space. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit: McDonald's
In this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about McDonald's. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every-Day Edit: Idaho
For this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Idaho. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
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Every Day Edit - Mount St. Helens
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Mount St. Helens. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit - Author Scott O'Dell
For this everyday editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about author Scott O'Dell. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.