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Observing Capitalization Rules

For Students 4th - 5th
In this capitalization worksheet, students complete three activities that help them follow the rules for capitalization in their writing.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Capitalization

For Students 4th - 5th
In these capitalization worksheets, students review the capitalization rules and then complete three pages of exercises that help them understand capitalization.
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Lesson Plan
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Grammar and Punctuation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students review grammar and punctuation rules from previous lessons. As a class, they work together to correct sentences on an overhead transparency. If there is a discrepancy about what needs to be changed, they must discuss the issue...
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Capitalization Practice

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this capitalization activity, students rewrite a set of 6 sentences, correcting capitalization errors. Incorrectly capitalized words/phrases are underlined.
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PPT
Curated OER

What is Proofreading?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Is your essay coherent? Does it make sense? Is it formatted correctly? Does it adhere to standard English conventions? This helpful and informative slide-show walks learners step by step through the editing and proofreading process. Each...
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McGraw Hill

Grammar Practice Workbook

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
To an English teacher, the only sound worse than nails on a chalkboard is a student using improper grammar. Make poor grammar a problem of the past with this extensive collection of worksheets that covers everything from sentence...
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Activity
Education World

Every-Day Edit: Peanuts Comic Strip

For Students 3rd - 8th
Catch up with the Peanuts gang and correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph. Learners will correct errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - President Theodore Roosevelt

For Students 3rd - 8th
Introduce your grammarians to Teddy Roosevelt with this half-sheet editing assignment. Present it at the beginning of class as a bell-ringer, or send it home for a quick homework assignment. Middle schoolers will search for errors in...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Reviewing Conventions and Editing Peers’ Work

For Teachers 4th Standards
Encourage young writers to edit text based on conventions. After reviewing the conventions, fourth graders watch a teacher demonstrate how to revise a paragraph for correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, or dialogue. Then, pairs...
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Reed Novel Studies

Superfudge: Novel Study

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Has everyone heard the news about the herd of antelope? Scholars explore homonyms with the novel study for Superfudge by beloved children's author Judy Blume. Additionally, they answer text questions and engage in language activities....
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Workbook
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McGraw Hill

Grammar Practice Workbook

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Make sure your pupils exercise their grammar muscles with this collection of worksheets. Organized into units, the packet covers everything from the parts of speech to sentence structure to punctuation.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Thank You Letter: Correct Mistakes

For Students 3rd - 5th
Focus on mechanics with your upper elementary schoolers. Provided here is a short business letter and 10 questions. The quiz-taker must decide if certain things in the text are presented correctly. For example, they decide if a comma...
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Lesson Plan
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A Sentence for Life

For Teachers 2nd
What is a sentence? Second graders will explore the components of a sentence in the ten lessons of this unit. The subject, predicate, the process of proofreading, punctuation, and sentence sequence are analyzed in this unit. Handouts and...
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Proofreading Lesson 6

For Teachers 8th
Explore proofreading strategies with this instructional activity. Eighth graders practice finding errors in punctuation, capitalization, and formatting. Then, they write about a given topic and then proofread their compositions, looking...
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Interactive
McGraw Hill

Proofreading a Paragraph

For Students 7th - 8th
In this proofreading instructional activity, learners rewrite a paragraph to correct for errors. Each paragraph may contain errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Capitalizing Sentences

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students learn that sentences and names of people and places begin with a capital letter. Students read 10 sentences which have capitalization errors and write them correctly on the lines.
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Lesson Plan
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What's In a Noun: Grammar and Usage

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Nine lessons in a grammar and usage unit provide endless opportunities for drill and practice. Topics include the four types of sentences, subject and predicates, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs and prepositions, conjunctions...
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Activity
Education World

Every-day Edit: Rubber Duck Voyagers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learners correct errors in spelling and usage in a quick, six-line proofreading exercise. Makes a nice warm-up and reinforces editing skills. I've seen work like this called Daily Oral Language (D.O.L) practice; the class reviews the...
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Lesson Plan
Education World

Every Day Edit - President Eisenhower

For Students 3rd - 8th
What do you know about Dwight D. Eisenhower? Learn about President Eisenhower while editing a half-sheet. Learners correct grammatical and spelling mistakes in the short paragraph.
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Statue of Liberty

For Students 3rd - 8th
Where is the Statue of Liberty from? When did it come to the US? Learners will correct both spelling and grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the Statue of Liberty. 
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Time Zones

For Students 3rd - 8th
Make half the number of copies you need, and cut this document in two! Here's a great daily activity to hone the editing skills of your learners. For this short assignment, they learn about time zones and how they were established. 
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Worksheet
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Paragraph Editing

For Students 3rd - 5th
This worksheet includes a list of proofreading marks and asks readers to edit the paragraph provided. The exercise is replicated twice on the page so that you can cut reproductions in half to save paper. There is also a key.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Grade 9 ELA Module 2: Unit 1, Lesson 11

For Teachers 9th Standards
The capitalization rules are strict and inflexible—until you experience the fluid beauty of an Emily Dickinson poem. Ninth graders test their existing knowledge of language arts conventions with the many bent grammar rules in "I Felt a...
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Lesson Plan
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Writing Multiple Viewpoints Using Sequoyah

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice using quotation marks and capitalization in writing. In this multiple viewpoints instructional activity, 5th graders read Sequoyah and write ten sentences stating what they believe the character was thinking....

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