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Animals A to Z: Gecko

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this editing sentences worksheet, students read and edit five sentences about geckos to find ten errors involving capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.
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Animals A to Z: Eagle

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this editing sentences worksheet, learners read and edit six sentences about eagles to find ten errors involving capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct the errors found.
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Animals A to Z: Flamingo

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this editing sentences worksheet, students read and edit six sentences about flamingos to find ten errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.
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Pearson

Contractions, Plural Names, and Possessives: An Editing Exercise

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
Practice proper apostrophe use with a grammar learning exercise. After reviewing contractions, plural names, and possessive nouns, kids fix and rewrite 10 incorrect sentences.
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McGraw Hill

Proofreading Exercise

For Students 7th - 9th
For this proofreading activity, students rewrite a paragraph to correct various errors. Students must find and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage.
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Curated OER

Proofreading Marks

For Students 5th - 6th
In this proofreading learning exercise, students learn six common proofreading marks and their meanings. There is an example sentence for each mark. There are no questions for students.
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Curated OER

Comma Exercise 5

For Students 5th - 9th
In this comma exercise worksheet, students are given seventeen sentences to proofread and edit inserting commas where necessary.
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Writing Lesson Plan: Stop and Go: Capitals and Periods

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Examine writing using a fun, interactive format. Young writers choose a piece of their own writing to proofread for initial capitals and final periods they left out. They work independently using green stickers to add capitals and red...
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PPT
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Mechanics Mania

For Teachers 4th
As part of test prep, or a way to cement writing skills, this presentation would be superb. Students often have trouble with capitalization rules and commas. Coverage of mechanics uses well-thought-out examples.
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Writing a News Article

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Join the newspaper business with a series of lessons and exercises focused on elements of journalism. The packet focuses on distinguishing fact from opinion, writing effective headlines, sequencing events, and editing and proofreading a...
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Organizer
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Scholastic

Super Sentences & Perfect Paragraphs

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
An extensive collection of lessons and activities includes many writing, grammar, and proofreading exercises. With templates and worksheets that cover several steps in the writing process, from sentence to paragraph to essay, this...
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Proofreading Sentences

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this grammar editing worksheet, students edit five sentences to correct any grammatical or spelling errors. Students rewrite the sentences on the line.
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Strategy for Spelling Success - Proofreading Dictated Sentences

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders write and proofread dictated sentences. In this spelling instructional activity, 8th graders practice writing 4 dictated sentences. They proofread the sentences for spelling, written conventions, apostrophes, plurals,...
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Write the Sentence Correctly-- Use of Its and It's

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students demonstrate proofreading skills by correcting the mistakes in 15 sentences. All sentences contain the homonym its or it's. Students learn that the contraction form has the apostrophe.
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Error Correction: Review

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
For this proofreading worksheet, students analyze 10 sentences that have errors in grammar and punctuation. Students rewrite each sentence correctly.
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Proofreading Activity: "The Twentieth Century"

For Students 6th - 7th
In this proofreading worksheet, students mark infinitives, prepositional phrases, subjects and verbs in a paragraph titled "The Twentieth Century,"then edit for missing commas.
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All That's Fit To Print

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use an editor's checklist to help them proofread examples of other students writing, then edit a worksheet embedded in the plan. In this writing and editing lesson, students look for capitalization, spelling, and grammatical...
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BBC Learning English, Writing

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this proofreading worksheet, students correctly rewrite a passage that contains paragraph, spelling, and punctuation mistakes.
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Daily Writing

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this writing worksheet, students practice proofreading skills by using editing marks to fix one sentence, then rewriting it correctly. Students also examine a humorous picture and write what they think will happen next.
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Purdue University

Sentence Fragments Exercise 2

For Students 5th - 9th
In this sentence fragment exercise, learners are given paragraphs to proofread for sentence fragments. Students are given space to make revisions.
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Verb Pattern Error Correction

For Students 5th - 6th
In this proofreading and editing worksheet, students analyze 13 sentences, some that contain errors. Students determine if there are mistakes and correct those they see.
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University of North Carolina

Revising Drafts

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Don't simply proofread ... revise instead! Revising drafts is the topic of the 17th handout in UNC's Writing the Paper series of 24 lessons. Writers discover the importance of revision, as well as steps to follow during the process.
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Finding More Violators

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this editing worksheet, 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 of each...
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Curated OER

Intermediate Paragraph Correction #9

For Students 3rd - 6th
This editing worksheet has students read a short passage with 8 errors and choose the multiple choice answer that best corrects each error in the passage. This worksheet provides students with valuable practice for standardized tests; as...

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