20 Editing Worksheets – 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.

Australian Curriculum alignment

• English > Year 4 > Literacy > Creating texts > ACELY1695

  Re-read and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structureElaborationsrevising written texts: editing for grammatical and spelling accuracy and cl...

• English > Year 5 > Literacy > Creating texts > ACELY1705

  Re-read and edit student’s own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language featuresElaborationsediting for flow and sense, organisation of ideas and choice of lan...

• English > Year 6 > Literacy > Creating texts > ACELY1715

  Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choicesElaborationsediting for coherence, sequence, effective choice of vocabulary, opening devic...

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