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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

ADd IT-- ADjectives and ADverbs

For Teachers 6th
Descriptive writing is a must for students to understand. Using adverbs and adjectives, they turn simple sentences into works of art. Each simple sentence gets a descriptive make-over. This lesson suggests using Laptops and SMART board...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Find The Errors

For Students 4th - 5th
In this grammar practice worksheet, students correct 2 short letters. Each letter has numerous errors that students must find, circle, and correct.   
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Editing Process

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students edit and critique essays. In this editing and critiquing activity, students examine a sample essay and edit it. Students read the essay aloud to determine the areas that need to be revised. Students then write their own essay...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Grammar and Usage: Editing Practice

For Students 5th - 6th
In this editing learning exercise, students read 10 sentences and decide whether the underlined portion is correct as it is or choose the correction that should be made.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Grammar Usage: Editing

For Students 5th - 6th
in this editing worksheet, students correct the underlined portion of 10 sentences for grammar mistakes. Some sentences have no grammar mistakes.
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Worksheet
Purdue University

Sentence Fragments Exercise 2

For Students 5th - 9th
For this sentence fragment exercise, learners are given paragraphs to proofread for sentence fragments. Students are given space to make revisions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Eliminating Wordiness: Exercise 2

For Students 5th - 9th
For this writing exercise, learners are given five pairs of sentences and are asked to combine each set to make one concise sentence.
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - President James Madison

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about President James Madison. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - "Peanuts" Comic Strip

For Students 3rd - 8th
Young grammarians correct mistakes in a short paragraph about "Peanuts" Comic Strip. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, and grammar, to spelling. This would make a perfect seasonal activity to hand out at the beginning of...
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Martin Luther King, Jr. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - The Fabulous Frisbee

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the invention of the frisbee. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Aquarius, the Water Carrier

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the Greek myth of Aquarius. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Winnie the Pooh

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Winnie the Pooh. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - The Concorde

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the supersonic Concorde aircraft. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Benedict Arnold

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing instructional activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Benedict Arnold. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Revising Comma Splices, Fragments, and Run-on Sentences

For Students 7th - 8th
In this grammar worksheet, learners correct comma splices, fragments and run-on mistakes in twenty-five sentences to help make each one grammatically correct.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Peer writing evaluation (myth)

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students compose myths.  In this creative writing lesson students  use their knowledge of the features of myths to compose their own, then share with a peer for feedback.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Daily Edit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students edit a short story. For this editing lesson, students read a short story and correct errors. Students look for misspelled words and grammatical errors.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

You Are Uniquely You; Reflecting and Sharing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a letter as a culminating activity to a service project. In this reflection project, students draw something that occurred during the project and attach words to their drawings. Students pair share to edit their work.
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Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Grammar and Usage: Section 2

For Students 6th - 8th
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.
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Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #2

For Students 6th - 8th
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.
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Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #3

For Students 5th - 7th
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...
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Interactive
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #4

For Students 5th - 7th
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.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Beginning Paragraph Correction #9

For Students Higher Ed
In this editing worksheet, students read a short paragraph. Students will correct 8 errors that are underlined within the passage and choose the correct format in the form of multiple choice questions for each mistake.