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Every Day Edit - President Woodrow Wilson
In this everyday editing instructional activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about President Woodrow Wilson. The errors range from capitalization, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
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Every-Day Edit: Basketball's Beginnings
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about basketball's beginnings. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit - Illinois Statehood
For this editing learning exercise, pupils correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Illinois Statehood. The errors range from punctuation, spelling, grammar, and capitalization.
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Every Day Edit - Poet Phillis Wheatley
In this everyday editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Poet Phillis Wheatley. The errors range from capitalization, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
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Every Day Edit - Frozen Foods
For this editing instructional activity, students read and edit a short paragraph about frozen foods inventor, Clarence Birdseye, who also founded General Seafood Corporation. Pupils find and correct the ten errors involving...
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Every Day Edit - Eloise
For this everyday editing instructional activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in punctuation, spelling, grammar, and capitalization. The errors occur in a paragraph about the children's book Eloise.
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Every Day Edit - Montana Statehood
Given a short paragraph about the statehood of Montana, pupils find and then correct ten grammatical mistakes — including punctuation, spelling, grammar, and capitalization.
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Every Day Edit - The Hope Diamond
Young grammarians correct mistakes in a short paragraph about one of the most famous diamonds in the world, the Hope Diamond. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, and grammar, to spelling. This would make a perfect seasonal...
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Every Day Edit - Marie Curie
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Marie Curie. The errors range from punctuation, spelling, grammar, and capitalization.
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Every Day Edit - Sesame Street
For this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Sesame Street. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every Day Edit - Dr. Seuss
For this editing worksheet about Dr. Seuss, pupils read and edit a short paragraph. Students look for 10 errors in capitalization punctuation, spelling and/or grammar.
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Every-Day Edit: Fastest Sport in the World
For this proof reading instructional activity, students read a paragraph about Jai Alai, Arguably "The Fastest Sport in the World." Students locate and correct 10 errors in the paragraph.
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Every-Day Edits: Ellis Island
In this proof reading instructional activity, learners read a paragraph about Ellis Island. Students locate and correct 10 errors in the paragraph.
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Every-Day Edits: Betsy Ross
For this proof reading instructional activity, students find ten errors in a paragraph about Betsy Ross. They correct the errors using standard editing symbols.
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Proofreading
In this editing worksheet, students read eight sentences, find the two mistakes found in each one and then rewrite the corrected version of each sentence. Students study the first one done for them.
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Finding More Violators
In this editing learning exercise, students read twelve sentences and find the word or punctuation mark in each sentence that is used incorrectly. Students underline the mistake and write the correct word or punctuation mark at the end...
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Revising Comma Splices, Fragments, and Run-on Sentences
In this grammar worksheet, students correct comma splices, fragments and run-on mistakes in twenty-five sentences to help make each one grammatically correct.
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Every Day Edit - President James Madison
Learners correct the spelling and punctuation of the article in reference to President James Madison. They should be able to find 10 mistakes in the article. Students are given the printed activity as an Every-Day-Edit activity.
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Language Arts: Digital Commercials
Students create commercials using a digital camera. After brainstorming their ideas, they spend three days writing their commercials. Students practice and edit their commercials and then present them for review.
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Editing
Are your writers ready to edit their papers? Present them with these editing tips including reading papers out loud, varying sentence openings and lengths, and using action verbs. While the tips are worthwhile, consider supplementing the...
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Eliminate Fragments and Run-ons
Fix fragments and run-ons. Kids practice editing a piece of their own writing, read, and take notes of common examples. They practice connecting independent clauses and then use the information to edit previously written pieces. Note:...
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Adding Words to Your Rough Draft
In this language arts worksheet, students edit their rough draft. Students replace nondescript sentences with 'super duper' word choices.
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Writing: Stamp of Approval
Learners write a good title and edit their essay. In this writing activity, students examine several examples of good titles and discuss what makes them effective. Learners relate this to the sign on a building and discuss...
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Peer writing evaluation (myth)
Students compose myths. In this creative writing lesson plan students use their knowledge of the features of myths to compose their own, then share with a peer for feedback.