Turn your youngsters into little editors with an exercise that focuses on some of the most basic and important writing conventions: capitalization and punctuation. Learners fix five sentences and then rewrite a sentence using correct capitalization and punctuation.

Concepts

capitalization, punctuation, editing, Grammar, sentence correction, writing conventions

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Send this home for homework or use it as an in-class warm-up or assessment
• If you are noticing many errors in student work, use this worksheet as a refresher on these grammar musts

Classroom Considerations

• Note that one of the sentences is entirely correct; learners are only asked to correct errors, but this might trip up a few individuals

Pros

• The first sentence is completed as an example and demonstrates how to note changes to make
• There is plenty of space for kids to write in edits and handwriting lines are provided for the sentence learners are meant to rewrite

Cons

• None

Common Core

L.2.2.a L.3.2.a L.4.2.a L.5.2.a