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Young Author's Workshop: Revising
Revise means to take another look at something. If you are not satisfied with your story, this is the step where you add details, dialog, and action to make the story more interesting.
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Young Author's Workshop: Editing
Now that you written enough drafts to be satisfied with the content and ideas of your story, you are ready to check spelling. You might also like to make sure you have any historical information correct, check other facts, or consult a...
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Jefferson County School District: Fourth Grade Editing [Pdf]
This site, which is provided for by the Jefferson County School District, gives a printable editing activity designed for 4th grade.
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Write Words: Word Frequency Counter
A simple writing tool where one can paste in a piece of text, and count how many times each word appears in the text. A good tool to use to avoid over-using words.
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Peer Editing Checklist [Pdf]
An in depth review process followed by a simple checklist to use for peer review of writing assignments.
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.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: 5th Grade Conventions Checklists [Pdf]
A series of three checklists for sets of nine weeks, designed to track fifth graders' focus on usage and mechanics in their writing.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: 5th Grade Conventions Checklists [Pdf]
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
IQ Site
Iq Study Activities: Language Review 4
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...
IQ Site
Iq Study Activities: Language Arts Review 1
Students practice spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and usage skills by choosing the correctly written phrase for the underlined section in twenty-five sentences. Keep score as you go along and see your final score at the end of the...
IQ Site
Iq Study Activities: Language Arts Review 3
A twenty-five question exercise where students choose the answer that corrects all spelling, capitalization, usage, and punctuation errors in the underlined portion of each sentence. The student's score is kept along the way and...
IQ Site
Iq Study Activities: Language Arts Review 2
Correct the underlined part of twenty-five sentences by choosing the correctly written phrase. The sentences provide practice for editing and proofreading skills such as punctuation, capitalization, grammar usage, and spelling. Score is...
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After the Deadline
Editing and proofreading opportunities are provided on this site. Students can type text on this site and will be guided to ways to fix their writing's errors in style, grammar, and style. Students can also paste into the text box and...
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Young Author's Workshop: Writing/drafting
Once you have an idea for your story, is there anywhere you can go online for writing advice? Definitely--the links on this page take you to writing tips, examples of good writing, places to sharpen your writing skills, and places to...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revising for a Different Audience [Pdf]
An activity where students are asked to write for a specific audience. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen writing
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Spelling: Lesson 1
This lesson goes over checking a composition for spelling errors. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Editing Techniques: Checking your Spelling." W.9-10.5 Writing Process
TES Global
Blendspace: The Writing Process: Pre Writing
A six-part learning module with images, videos, and web links to teach different pre-writing strategies.
TES Global
Blendspace: The Writing Process: Proofreading / Editing
A nineteen-part learning module with links to videos, images, and websites to use while learning about the proofreading and editing steps of the writing process.
TES Global
Blendspace: The Writing Process: Drafting
An eight-part learning module with websites, videos, and texts about the drafting phase of the writing process.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Writing Process
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using this flipchart, students will learn the steps of the writing process.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Evaluation Peer's Stories
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed for students to have a guideline for evaluating a peer's stories. Once a peer or teacher has read another peer's story, this will guide you on traits to look for in a good...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Writing a Cooperative Class Story
In this lesson plan, young scholars will write a cooperative class story, using brainstorming and editing skills. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision Dice [Pdf]
Revision can be a difficult process for students. With a roll of the dice, students are reminded of the steps they can take to improve their writing. Includes templates for four types of dice that focus on ideas, organization, voice, and...