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Misplaced Modifiers

For Students 6th - 9th
Misplaced modifiers can alter the meaning of a sentence, and take away from a writer's intended message. Use the reference sheet and activity to show middle schoolers how to edit confusing sentences with misplaced modifiers. A great...
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Concise Writing Exercises

For Students 7th - 11th
Are your pupils' essays full of long, wordy sentences? Help them to write more concise sentences with this practice worksheet, which provides twenty long sentences for your young editors to proofread. Use the activity as a homework...
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Writing
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Punctuating a Paragraph

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Do your fourth graders need a little help with punctuation? Use this run-on paragraph to demonstrate proofreading for capitalization, punctuation, and separating ideas into separate paragraphs. At the end of the activity, learners...
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Punctuation Practice

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Need some punctuation practice? Challenge your third or fourth graders' editing skills with a helpful instructional activity on punctuation. After naming different types of punctuation marks, they rewrite a paragraph that has multiple...
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Block Buster

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Here is a unique and innovative game which will help your charges learn the important skill of proofreading and editing their own writing. The class is divided up into groups, and each group uses actual samples of writing from students...
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Proofreading

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the techniques of editing and proofreading then complete writing prompt worksheet to assist the beginning of the writing process. They write a first draft on an assigned topic then revise, edit and format the finished...
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Letter Editing

For Students 4th - 6th
In this proofreading worksheet, students examine a letter and identify any grammatical mistakes they find. Students correct the errors they identify.
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Editing for AP (and Newspaper's) style

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners edit and revise a news story picked out by the teacher. For this editing lesson plan, students edit in AP style and then revise the story. It should have no errors in the end.
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Proofreading with Peer Editing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A standard peer editing activity, young writers get into groups and pass their papers to each of their peers in turn; each person checking their peer's paper for spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes. In a fun twist, your class...
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Writing a Newspaper Article

For Teachers 6th - 9th
The perfect resource for a beginning journalism teacher or someone designing a journalism unit, this activity prompts students to write a newspaper article. It covers all aspects of the writing process, such as a guided warm-up...
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Getting to Know You Through Peer Editing

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders get to know their classmates through 'personalized' sentences that feature one student each day, and offer practice in proofreading and peer-editing related to capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and/or grammar rules.
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Conventions and Proofreading

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars explore and apply their proofreading skills in order to prepare their project essays for peer editing and final drafting. They refine their final project essays by identifying and correcting spelling and grammatical errors.
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Proofreading Practice

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars investigate proofreading marks. In this proofreading lesson, students evaluate a paragraph for editing mistakes. Young scholars correct mistakes and return to the teacher.
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Proofreading

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice proofreading skills. In this proofreading lesson, 5th graders check their work for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling errors. They participate in a proofreading relay where each person takes a turn fixing...
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Fifth Grade Editing

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students demonstrate proofreading and editing skills by fixing the errors in 10 sentences. Students identify the capitalization, punctuation and grammar errors and rewrite each sentence correctly.
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Interactive
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Proofreading Practice

For Students 6th
In this proofreading practice online activity, 6th graders retype three passages correcting errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar and usage, with answers available.
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Proofreading

For Students 4th - 8th
In this proofreading worksheet, students label verbs and subjects and edit paragraphs. Students complete this for 3 paragraphs on this worksheet.
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Letter Writing: An English Language Arts Lesson For Writing/Proofreading

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders write a letter to someone who is deserving of thanks. Peer and self-editing takes place. After the writing process is completed and a copy is made for the portfolio, envelopes are distributed, addressed, sealed, and mailed.
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Annie's Gifts - Daily Proofreading

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this daily proofreading worksheet, students correct the sentences on their grammar and punctuation from the story Annie's Gifts. Students correct 5 sentences total.
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Fix It

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Word processing practice and vocabulary blend with proofreading in a multi-purpose instructional activity that makes excellent use of an hour in the computer lab. Learners edit the grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors in a given...
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Lesson Plan 18: Cleaning It Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Careful proofreading is an important step in the writing process.  After guided practice using a provided worksheet that details common grammar concepts, young writers refer to the worksheet as they proofread their own work. Although the...
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Second Grade Editing

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students demonstrate proofreading and editing skills by finding the mistakes in 10 sentences. Students locate the capitalization and punctuation errors and rewrite each sentence correctly.
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Fourth Grade Editing

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts instructional activity, students demonstrate proofreading and editing skills by finding the mistakes in 10 sentences. Students correct the capitalization and punctuation errors and rewrite each sentence correctly.
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Third Grade Editing

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts learning exercise, students demonstrate proofreading and editing skills by finding the errors in 10 sentences. Students rewrite the sentences using the correct capitalization, punctuation and grammar.