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Every-Day Edit: Longest Road on Earth
In this editing instructional activity, learners read a short paragraph on "Longest Road on Earth" and find the ten errors involving capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.
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Every Day Edit - Nuts for Pecans
For this editing worksheet about pecans, young writers read and then correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every-Day Edit: Alabama Statehood
For this everyday editing worksheet, students grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Alabama's statehood. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
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Every-Day Edit: Stock Market Crash 1929
In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the stock market crash of 1929. The errors range in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every-Day Edit: Kuwait
In this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Kuwait. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Narrative Revision Sheet
After completing a narrative essay, provide this self-editing worksheet for your class. Four simple questions ask for the purpose, tone, and any rhetorical devices used in the essay. Editors fill this section out themselves before...
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Covers by Nikki Giovanni
Over three days, scholars listen to and read the poem, "Covers" by Nikki Giovanni. Learners complete a graphic organizer by sketching their visualizations from each stanza then discuss their pictures with a peer. Pupils answer...
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Abbreviations
When should you abbreviate a word, and when should you write it out? Practice abbreviation rules with a resource that provides guided examples before challenging young grammarians to correct ten sentences on their own.
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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: Oklahoma, the Sooner State
In this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Oklahoma. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Bully Free Lesson Plans—Eighth Grade
Middle schoolers are likely very familiar with the concept of bullying and cliques. Discuss their experiences and brainstorm ways to handle peer conflict and feelings of exclusion with a poem that focuses on bullying, and a second lesson...
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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...
One Stop English
A Lesson on Register
The classroom might not be the best place for informal language, but it's a great place to teach middle and high schoolers how to identify the correct language register for their audience. A short lesson on formal and informal language...
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Seeing Eye to Eye
A performance task challenges scholars to read an informational text then respond with an explanatory essay. The exam begins with an independent reading of Seeing Eye to Eye by Leslie Hall. A second reading follows with the...
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Ratiocination
Writers use the four steps outlined here to edit their own or a peer’s paper. Using different colors of highlighters, editors note “to be” verbs, examine the length of sentences, box the first word in every sentence, and mark instances...
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From Seed to Pumpkin by Wendy Pfeffer
Conduct a lesson that leads into a writing assessment. After reading an excerpt from From Seed to Pumpkin, first graders demonstrate their interpretation of sections of the passage by sketching the details from each part.
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Cinco De Mayo: ELD Reading and Language-Building
A brief passage about the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo is accompanied by an array of language activities for ELD: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group presentation, fluency writing,...
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Play or Film Review
Students review the elements for a successful play review. In this play review lesson, students work in groups to complete peer responses, a consensus activity, and tally activity. Students write a play review. A Peer Review Sheet is...
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Letter From Birmingham Jail
To demonstrate their ability to comprehend complex text, ninth graders are asked to craft an essay in which they use evidence drawn from "Letter From Birmingham Jail" to analyze how Martin Luther King, Jr. uses rhetorical devices...
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Hope Despair Memory
Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair and Memory" provides ninth graders an opportunity to demonstrate their ability to analyze complex text. Individuals craft an essay that draws evidence from the text of the speech to show how Wiesel develops...
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Gettysburg Address
Looking for an assessment that reveals how well readers understand complex text? Check out an assessment module based on "The Gettysburg Address." Pupils are asked to craft an essay that demonstrates their understanding not only of...
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Glass Menagerie
As a reading comprehension assessment, ninth graders are asked to use evidence drawn from The Glass Menagerie to support an analysis of how Tennessee Williams uses specific lines to develop Amanda's character as well as her...
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Autumn Internet Hunt
Which is better for a harvest party, apple juice or apple cider? Are there many black bears in your state? How soon in advance do you need to plant pumpkins in order for them to be ready by October? Find the answers to these questions...
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Proofreading Marks
In this writer's resource worksheet, students edit and proofread their own writing and that of their peers as they 11 marks listed on this sheet. Meanings and examples accompany each mark.