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...

If you're looking to start a unit based around narrative writing, make sure to consider this resource while you're planning. This book covers five topics: writing personal narratives, writing narratives about others, writing...

There are some words out there that just make you say, "Wow!" Encourage your class to find and use these words in their writing to make their work more interesting and complex. This packet goes through the writing process, beginning with...

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...

The fifth installment in a writing unit that culminates with a Hyperstudio illustrated group story project, this plan is ripe with ideas for ways to design group writing projects for elementary writers. Use the whole unit as a base from...

These outlaws are hard to catch! Spellcheckers do not notice certain grammatical mistakes when they are technically correctly spelled words. For instance, one does not want to say that the colors compliment each other on the slide since...

Prepare your soon-to-be graduates to take the Writing Proficiency Examination given at Cal Poly. These slides cover everything from the various types of questions to writing thesis statements. This is more like an overview than a...

The focus of this writing instructional activity is to have writers revise and edit a three-paragraph passage to eliminate wordiness and repetition. The paragraphs are quite long, and this should take most students quite a while to...

Word processing practice and vocabulary blend with proofreading in a multi-purpose activity that makes excellent use of an hour in the computer lab. Learners edit the grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors in a given paragraph...

Your class can get online and practice editing with this online activity. They read a letter, then examine each underlined section noting if there is or isn't a mistake to be corrected. They then choose the best fix to the proble:...

Kids can practice the mechanics of writing as they work through this online review sheet. They examine 10 sentences and select the appropriate revision for each sentence with regard to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Answers...

Save time and trees by using an online interactive worksheet. Learners examine 10 sentences and select the appropriate revision for each sentence with regard to capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. They then submit their answers to...

A handout to guide peer editors, this checklist delineates common problems with paragraph structure and specific proofreading items to check. It also provides encouragement about the collaborative part of the writing process. Formats...

Here are 10 sentences, and each contains a mechanical error. Your class will revise each sentence, correcting capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. This instructional activity in online and can be scored immediately.

Readers answer 8 multiple choice questions by selecting the correct revisions to the paragraph provided. The focus is on prepositions, syntax, and parts of speech. A good, quick exercise for ELL classes or review for middle schoolers.

In this proofreading worksheet, students examine a letter and identify any grammatical mistakes they find. Students correct the errors they identify.

In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 47 multiple choice questions regarding grammar skills. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

In this online interactive grammar and usage learning exercise, middle schoolers examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.

In this online interactive grammar and usage worksheet, middle schoolers examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.

In this online interactive grammar and usage instructional activity, learners examine a paragraph that is missing words or phrase. Students select the appropriate words or phrases to complete each of the sentences and submit their...

In this online interactive grammar and usage worksheet, students examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision using the rules of standard formal English for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.

In this sentence fragment worksheet, students are asked to edit and correct a paragraph for errors in capitalization and punctuation. Students must focus on making sure there are no sentence fragments.

For this advanced paragraph correction worksheet, students read a passage about the plays of Shakespeare. Students then answer 8 questions in which an underlined error is corrected with one of 5 choices.

In this capitalization worksheet, students read 10 sentences that contain errors. Students rewrite each sentence, inserting correct capitalization.