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Activity
Education World

Every-Day Edits: Where is Helvetia?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read about Helvetia and practice editing at the same time. Learners read a short passage then work to identify 10 punctuation, capitalization, spelling, or grammar errors. This exercise prints with two passages on one page, so you use...
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - The Pig

For Students 3rd - 8th
Everyone loves pigs! Give this short, half-sheet editing practice to your middle schoolers to develop editing skills while they read about popular pig movies. They search for errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Writing
Dorling Kindersley

Punctuation Practice

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Need some punctuation practice? Challenge your third or fourth graders' editing skills with a helpful instructional activity on punctuation. After naming different types of punctuation marks, they rewrite a paragraph that has multiple...
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Activity
Education World

Every-Day Edit: Ida B. Wells

For Students 3rd - 8th
Practice language convention usage with this brief proofreading exercise. Together your class can verbally correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Ida B. Wells. Then individual learners can rewrite it or mark the hard...
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Sir Isaac Newton

For Students 3rd - 8th
Practice everyday! Have learners correct grammatical errors in a short paragraph about Sir Isaac Newton. The errors are in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Editing Process

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students read a sample essay and evaluate them in groups. They write their own essay on a topic of their choice and use peer editing. They share their essays with the class.
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Japan's "Coming of Age Day"

For Students 3rd - 8th
Japan's coming of age is the background for this practice sheet. Pupils correct mistakes in a short paragraph. There are errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. 
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - First Hot-Air Balloon

For Students 3rd - 8th
Daily practice develops skills! Use this half-sheet to help learners correct grammatical errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Today's topic is a hot-air balloon flight. 
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Writing
Curated OER

Punctuating a Paragraph

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Do your fourth graders need a little help with punctuation? Use this run-on paragraph to demonstrate proofreading for capitalization, punctuation, and separating ideas into separate paragraphs. At the end of the activity, learners...
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Activity
Education World

Every-Day Edit - Harriet Tubman

For Students 3rd - 8th
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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Assessment
Pearson

Practice Test English Language Arts: Grade 8

For Students 8th Standards
As teachers, it is our job to encourage learners to stand up for what they believe in and help them learn lessons from life's events. A set of practice questions designed for the ELA MCAS assessment features passages that teach positive...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Collaborative Editing

For Teachers 6th
With the use of an online editing site, budding authors revise their writing. This is a creative way to have your class practice essay revision. Instead of being a tedious process, editing and revising can be fun.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Proofreading, Revising, & Editing Skills Success

For Students 3rd - 6th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing Process-- Revision and Editing

For Teachers 8th - 12th
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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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Grade 9 ELA Module 3, Unit 3, Lesson 7

For Teachers 9th Standards
As the unit on research writing draws to a close, class members continue to revise and edit their papers, this time focusing on grammar, spelling, and punctuation (colon and semicolon).
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Editor Travels U.S. Fixing Errors on Signs

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
An interesting article on editors helps young writers understand the conventions of written English. They read a news article about an editor traveling America correcting spelling and punctuation errors on signs.  They discuss proper...
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Worksheet
Sinclair Community College

Sentence Sense Editing Exercise

For Students 6th - 9th
This one-page sentence editing practice is a beast! Grammar masters make corrections in punctuation and capitalization in a lengthy paragraph that is about writing process (how post-modern). This efficient resource can be used as...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Editing Process

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students edit and critique essays. In this editing and critiquing lesson, students examine a sample essay and edit it. Students read the essay aloud to determine the areas that need to be revised. Students then write their own essay for...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Intermediate Paragraph Correction #2

For Students 4th - 6th
Editing skills are practiced in this language arts activity. Students read 2 paragraphs, locate the mistakes numbered in each sentence, and choose the multiple choice answer that corrects each mistake.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Intermediate Paragraph Correction #9

For Students 3rd - 6th
This editing worksheet has students read a short passage with 8 errors and choose the multiple choice answer that best corrects each error in the passage. This worksheet provides students with valuable practice for standardized tests; as...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Intermediate Paragraph Correction #10

For Students 3rd - 5th
Students read a short passage with 8 errors and then choose the appropriate multiple choice answer that best corrects each error. This excellent worksheet also provides effective standardized test taking practice, as there are many...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Editing to Eliminate Fragments

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students practice their writing skills. In this writing revision instructional activity, students read the provided writing samples and make corrections to the sentence fragments that are evident in each of them.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Our Dinopals with WordArt

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Elementary schoolers use the writing process steps to write a descriptive paragraph about a fictional dinosaur. Using a tech tool lesson, they create a graphic title for the paragraph. A nice blending of technology with "old-fashioned"...
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Unit 3: King Arthur and the Round Table

For Teachers 4th Standards
Over four weeks, fourth graders study King Arthur and the Round Table, retold by Alice M. Hadfield. Fifteen lessons take pupils through each chapter, complete word work, and the writing process to draft paragraphs, sentences, dialogue,...

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