Analyze magazines as a class, looking carefully for the target audience, advertisements, and topics presented. Small groups then work as a publication team and receive a magazine that they have to "sell." Each individual has a different...

An interesting article on editors helps young writers understand the conventions of written English. They read a news article about an editor traveling America correcting spelling and punctuation errors on signs.  They discuss...

For this everyday editing worksheet, young scholars correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Tunisia. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar.

Bring this lesson into your unit about creative writing and precise language. First, middle schoolers create a piece of writing with the help of their classmates. In the second part of this workshop, they edit their own piece of writing....

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...

You can't publish a story until after it has been revised and edited! Budding authors investigate the writing process while drafting an original story. They select a topic, complete a rough draft, edit it, revise it, and finally publish...

In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Pocahontas. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.

In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the Tuskegee Airmen. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

For this editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes—including punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar—in a short paragraph about author Virginia Hamilton.

For this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the Ides of March. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

In this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.

In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Donald Duck. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

In this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the first woman in Congress. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.

In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical errors in a short paragraph about George H. W. Bush. The errors range from punctuation, spelling, grammar, and capitalization.

In this everyday editing, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Miranda Rights. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

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...

Refine the writing of your class members with this quick PowerPoint. Wordiness can kill effective writing, making it boring and indirect. Help your writers cut out some of the unneeded words by pairing this presentation with a piece of...

What is a paragraph? This question drives the PowerPoint. Viewers discuss important elements of a solid paragraph, transitions between paragraphs, and strategies for editing. Show this presentation and then look at an example...

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...

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.