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Read Works: Watch Your Commas
[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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing Process Intro
[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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Daily Oral Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains Daily Oral Language sentences that are intended to be corrected by students.
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.
ProProfs
Pro profs.com: 8th Grade Ela: Gle 23 and 24
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Spelling
This lesson goes over checking a composition for spelling errors. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Other
Unbc: Research Papers: The Steps [Pdf]
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.
Other
H&h Publishing: Identify Inappropriate Shifts in Verb Tense
Practice improving four sentences by correct verb tense shifts and eliminating unnecessary words.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Editing and Proofreading Strategies for Revision
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
Education.com
Education.com: w.k.5 Worksheets
[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.
W. W. Norton
W.w. Norton&company:the Writing Process: Conventions That Can Cause Problems
Click through lessons on conventions that can cause problems in an essay including tenses, titles, and names. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.1
Other
Eei Communictions: Standard Proofreading Marks
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.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Using Spell Checkers
This resource gives three pointers for getting the best results from your spell checker.