Curated OER
Postcards from the Past
Students create postcards from the past by summarizing a historical event. Then they design illustrations for their postcards and send them off to another teacher at their school.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Self Editing
This writing instructional activity teaches students how to become self-editors by learning to judge and critique their work.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Editing Checklist
An editing/proofreading checklist is often helpful when you read your own work, or someone else's. This site helps you edit for capitalization, sentence fragments, verb tense, and punctuation. Included is a brief video about sentence...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Editing Checklist for Self and Peer Editing
Use this printable template to help students self-assess their own writing as well as provide meaningful feedback for their peers.