Activity
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Deadly Sins Checklist

For Students 9th - 10th
Lists five "deadly sins" to purge from your writing. If you're not sure how to correct these errors, just click on the list item to link to more information.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Scientific Community

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How the scientific community shares results and monitors scientific integrity.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Scientific Community

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How the scientific community shares results and monitors scientific integrity.
Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Shifts in Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Five areas to edit for shifts in writing: Consistent Point of View, Consistent Verb Tenses, Verbs Consistent in Mood and Voice, Shifts from Indirect to Direct Questions/Quotations, and Shifts from British to American English. Each area...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Grammar (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on finding and fixing grammar errors in your writing. It includes strategies for locating errors such as reading your paper aloud to see if your are...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Grammar (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on finding and fixing grammar errors in your writing. It includes strategies for locating errors such as reading your paper aloud to see if your are missing words. It also provides practice with subject-verb agreement...
Interactive
Grammar Check

Grammar Check: Online Editor

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive site provides a site for students to enter text. Students can click a button to check their entered text for errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar. A "deeper" search button with scan for plagiarized text.
Graphic
Grammar Check

Grammar Check: 15 Shocking Student Writing Fails (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th
This infographic is provided to help alert students about common writing mistakes. The following types of errors are discussed: commas, verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, apostrophes, pronouns, and prepositions.
Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Mechanics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of the importance of mechanics and links to additional information on specific focus areas.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: At Resources

For Students K - 1st Standards
This eleven-part learning module provides assorted assistive technology references. This blendspace provides reading and writing video, print, and audio resources that will help special needs students with their reading and writing.
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Other

Mapping the World by Heart: Never Say Neverisms

For Students 9th - 10th
You can use columnist William Safire's "neverisms" as a fun editing/proofreading checklist. Each item on the list violates the rule it states.
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Other

Sweet Briar College: Common Writing Errors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This list from the Sweet Briar College of sixteen common writing errors makes an effective proofreading checklist. Examples of errors and corrections included when appropriate.
Unit Plan
English Club

English Club: Peer Editing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub learning module explains the peer editing process. Resources for peer editors and proofreaders are provided, along with an opportunity for students to engage in an editing challenge.
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Other

If I Were a Carpenter: The Tools of the Writer

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty tips for writers, slanted toward fiction, from the director of the National Writers' Workshop. Tips are divided into four areas: sentences and paragraphs, language, effects, and structure.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Commas: Exercise #4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students' proofread sentences and decide the correct placement of commas. Answers are provided for students' to review.
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Education.com

Education.com: w.k.5 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the skill of listening to questions and suggestions from peers to strengthen writing.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Fourth Grade Conventions Checklists [Pdf]

For Students 4th Standards
A series of three checklists for the first three nine-weeks, designed to help fourth graders focus on usage and mechanics in their writing.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: 3rd Grade Conventions Checklists [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
A series of four checklists, one for each nine weeks, designed to track third graders' focus on usage and mechanics in their writing.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: 3rd Grade Conventions Checklists [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
A series of four checklists, one for each nine weeks, designed to track third graders' focus on usage and mechanics in their written work in Spanish.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: 5th Grade Conventions Checklists [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th Standards
A series of three checklists for sets of nine weeks, designed to track fifth graders' focus on usage and mechanics in their writing.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: 5th Grade Conventions Checklists [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th Standards
A series of three checklists for sets of nine weeks, designed to track fifth graders' focus on usage and mechanics in their written work in Spanish
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IQ Site

Iq Study Activities: Language Review 4

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Notice spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and usage errors in the underlined portion of twenty-five sentences, and choose the answer that corrects any mistakes. A percentage score is kept throughout the exercise and displayed at the...
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Other

Spelling police.com: Proofreaders' Marks

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A general list of marks and symbols a proofreader may use in correcting and editing a piece of written work.
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: 5 Bad Writing Habits You Can Break Today (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th
This infographic includes a list of easy-to-fix writing habits. Methods for fixing these five writing habits are included.