Twenty editing worksheets for spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Use these spelling, grammar and punctuation worksheets when learning about editing a piece of text.
This teaching resource includes twenty pieces of text, with twenty errors in each.
Both literary and factual texts are provided. Pieces of text include:
- Great Barrier Reef
- Great Wall of China
- MP3 Players and Your Hearing
- The Solar System
- Soccer
- Dreaming
- Why Our Bodies Need Water
- Bees
- Thunderstorms
- Cathy Freeman
- Deep-Sea Diving
- Professor Fizz’s Potion
- Beth’s Birthday
- Brad’s Bath
- The Treehouse
- Mia’s Magic Moment
- Bruno’s Big Adventure
- One Little Seed.
Each text has a sheet with editing marks already provided, as well as a sheet with space to add your class’s specific editing marks. Also provided are answers sheets and extra paper to write on.
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Epic Editing Workbook (Upper Primary)
An editing workbook for upper primary students containing 20 topical texts.
Hello, is there any chance this could be a word document as my editing code is different to this so I would want to change this but the activities are great?
Hi Jaslyn, thanks for reaching out. To request a change for a Word version as well please use the changes & updates tab just above the comments section here. Once a change is submitted this will be sent through to our teachers, and you will receive a direct notification if this change is completed.
I can't wait to give these to my 4-6 class! They really need to practise editing their work for punctuation and grammar, and this is exactly what I was looking for.
Hi Martina, Thank you so much for your kind feedback! Let us know how it goes!
that was good for my kids
Hi Payton, It is so good to hear that this resource worked well! Thank you for taking the time to comment!
wow this is great, can we have some more
Hello Enah, thank you for taking the time to share your lovely feedback. If you would like to see more of these worksheets, please feel free to request a resource on our website. The more votes a resource request gains, the quicker it can be moved into production. Please feel free to request a resource by following this link: https://www.teachstarter.com/suggest-a-resource/
Would so like more of these, so good.
Hi there Bernadette, thank you for your suggestion! Please feel free to request a resource at our 'Request a Resource' page. https://www.teachstarter.com/suggest-a-resource/ Requests are voted on by the Teach Starter community and we create the top requests. Please let me know if you have any further questions, I’m more than happy to help. Have a wonderful day!
This is so good
yeah this is amazing
We're glad you like them, Lily!
Another series of these would be brilliant! Such a great resource!
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Could this please be made editable to better suit my school's editing code?
Hi Graeme, Thank you for your comment and for your suggestion. I can see that you have requested this change via our Request a Resource function. We will notify you via email when we begin to work on this resource. Kind regards Jill