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Building Proofreading Skills
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.
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Proofreading, Revising, & Editing Skills Success
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...
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Spelling Proofreading Worksheet
Looking for a quick spelling activity to use as a quiz or warm-up? This resource provides a paragraph of eleven sentences, all of which contain a spelling error. Young learners list the mistakes on the lines below. Make a game out of...
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Every-Day Edit: President Gerald R. Ford
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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Proofreading For Spelling Errors
For this spelling worksheet, students analyze 20 words that are not spelled correctly. Students write the words correctly and then alphabetize the list.
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Beat the Spell Checker 1-- Going on Holiday
In this language arts worksheet, 4th graders practice proofreading skills by reading and correcting the errors in 8 sentences. The words that are misspelled are highlighted; students write the correct spelling underneath each incorrectly...
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English Skills Worksheet (6.203)
In this multiple English activities worksheet, students complete a variety of assignments: write three onomatopoeia sentences, add ten endings to ten words, give the root words to eight words, play two rounds of word chess, find the...
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Editing Informal Letters
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...
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Editing Skills
In this spelling worksheet, students edit, proofread and find the spelling mistakes in twelve sentences. Students correct each word they find spelt wrong.
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English Skills Assignment 6.205
Study words and word choice with this resource. Although the presentation is overwhelming, several topics are covered here. Alliteration, root words, parts of speech, and word meanings are just some of the topics! There's also a...
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Every-Day Edit: Volcanic Iceland
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.
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Elaboration, Revision, and Proofreading
Designed to help writers strengthen their elaboration, revision, and proofreading skills, this 48-page workbook is packed with information about and exercises in personal, narrative, persuasive, and report writing.
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Every-Day Edit - Harriet Tubman
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.
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Spelling Exercise: -ible or -able
From the Purdue Online Writing Lab, an editing practice exercise that focuses on the correct spelling of words that end in -ible or -able. Young authors proofread a paragraph about a date gone awry (high interest content). Onscreen it...
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Advanced Spelling Challenge 8
In this spelling worksheet, 11th graders examine 15 words which are spelled wrong. Students correct the spelling , then translate the word "into your own language." This is intended for ELL students.
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Mixed Spelling Challenge 1
In this spelling worksheet, students examine 3 boxes with 30 common words. Students identify and correct the 5 misspelled words in each box.
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Mixed Spelling Challenge 4
In this spelling instructional activity, students examine 3 large boxes which contain 30 commonly used words. Students identify the 5 misspelled words in each and correct them.
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Proofreading Sentences--Week 26
In this sentence editing worksheet, learners read each of the five sentences and proofread them for errors. Students rewrite each sentence on the line.
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Proofreading Exercise
In this writing and grammar worksheet, students proofread 24 sentences. Students correct wordiness, noun use, subject-verb agreement, tenses and spelling.
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Proofreading Practice
Have your scholars search for spelling errors in a passage about presenting in public. They find 10 spelling errors total.
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Proofreading Practice
In this proofreading practice online worksheet, 6th graders retype three passages correcting errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar and usage, with answers available.
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Daily Proofreading: unit 4 week 16
In this daily proofreading worksheet, students correct the sentences on their grammar and punctuation. Students correct 5 sentences total.
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Daily Proofreading: unit 4 week 18
In this daily proofreading worksheet, students correct the sentences on their grammar and punctuation. Students correct 5 sentences total.
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Daily Proofreading: unit 4, week 20
In this daily proofreading learning exercise, learners correct the sentences on their grammar and punctuation. Students correct 5 sentences total.