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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Watch Your Commas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses Lynne Truss' book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really DO Make a Difference! This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Writing Process Intro

For Teachers 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Subtitled, You are what you eat, this flipchart correlates the steps in the writing process to the steps involved in baking a cake emphasizing the importance of not leaving anything out. You may even...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Daily Oral Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains Daily Oral Language sentences that are intended to be corrected by students.
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Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Writing a Cooperative Class Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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.
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ProProfs

Pro profs.com: 8th Grade Ela: Gle 23 and 24

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An interactive quiz with ten questions that must be completed in fifteen minutes or less. Students choose the sentence in each questions that demonstrates correct punctuation and capitalization usage. Correct answers are displayed after...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Spelling

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over checking a composition for spelling errors. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Article
Other

Unbc: Research Papers: The Steps [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This document provides information on various aspects of writing a research paper. This specific document outlines the steps in writing a research paper. This document is a PDF and requires Adobe Reader.
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Activity
Other

H&h Publishing: Identify Inappropriate Shifts in Verb Tense

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Practice improving four sentences by correct verb tense shifts and eliminating unnecessary words.
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Editing and Proofreading Strategies for Revision

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson contains strategies for proofreading your assignments. Use the links on the left for a step-by-step method for proofreading and editing for grammar and mechanics. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.5
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: w.k.5 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the skill of listening to questions and suggestions from peers to strengthen writing.
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Handout
W. W. Norton

W.w. Norton&company:the Writing Process: Conventions That Can Cause Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Click through lessons on conventions that can cause problems in an essay including tenses, titles, and names. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.1
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Activity
Other

Eei Communictions: Standard Proofreading Marks

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a table of standard proofreading marks. The table indicates whether the marks would be used in the margin or in the text, but does not give examples of the marks in use.
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Handout
The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Using Spell Checkers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource gives three pointers for getting the best results from your spell checker.