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20 Editing Worksheets – Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation
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
- Journey into the Rainforest
- Tropical Rainforests
- 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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NSW Curriculum alignment
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELY300
Reread and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure
- VCELY330
Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features
- VCELY359
Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELY1695
Re-read and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure
- ACELY1705
Re-read and edit student??s own and others?? work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features
- ACELY1715
Re-read and edit students?? own and others?? work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices
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Could this please be made editable to better suit my school’s editing code?
Comment by Graeme Andrews on July 13, 2017 at 6:18 pm
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Official comment by Jill (Teach Starter) on July 19, 2017 at 2:44 pm
Another series of these would be brilliant! Such a great resource!
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