7th Grade Editing Practice

[Clinio Lofton]

Avital skill for young writers is to be able to revise and edit their writing. Recognizing an error in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and word usage takes some practice. The worksheets listed below give your student this important practice. You may use them for free in your classroom or at home. To read more about them or to download a printable PDF, simply click on the title. Check out all of our writing worksheets!

Practice identifying unnecessary words with this printable worksheet on editing and proofing. Students will be asked to read through a series of sentences and circle the ones that contain unnecessary words. This activity is great for use both at home and in the classroom.

Practice recognizing faulty parallel construction by completing this printable worksheet. This activity focuses on refining editing and proofing skills. It is ideal for high school students, but can be used where appropriate. Because it is made easy to print, this worksheet is great for use both at home and in the classroom by parents, teachers, or students. Click the link below to download and print the worksheet to get started.

Step into the world of grammar, editing, and holiday cheer with our delightful set of five printable Christmas-themed editing worksheets! Perfectly designed for first and second graders, these worksheets give your students the opportunity to find and correct capitalization and punctuation errors throughout a paragraph. Once errors have been noted, the student will rewrite the passage using proper punctuation and capitalization.

Are you ready to wrap up those Christmas lesson plans? This resource is fully editable and ready to use. Click the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or Google Slides version of this resource.

The Assignment Editor allows you to adjust assignment-level settings, such as the Grades Accepted Until date and the time limit. It also allows you to adjust question-level settings, such as the number of points each question is worth and the attempt penalty for each question.

Once your Student Set end date has passed, you will not be able to make any further edits, and the course will enter Review Mode. You will still be able to preview assignments, and to review student grades through the Class Activity Report.

If you want to reopen the course to students or edit assignments after the end date of your Student Set, you can extend the end date through the Manage Student Sets menu. This will remove the course from Review Mode. At that point, the assignments should become editable again for you and accessible by your students.

In the Assignment Setting Editor you can also edit individual question's settings. Each question in the assignment is displayed in the Question Settings Table, located underneath the Assignment Settings section.

Once you edit an assignment, you can save the settings so that they apply to a certain Student Set, or you can save the settings so that they apply to every instance of this assignment in all Student Sets.

If you see a message that a question has been deleted, this means it was available and present in a published assignment. We therefore encourage you to remove the question from active assignments and re-grade accordingly. You can use the Credit All function to give students credit for flawed, deleted questions (see Knowledge Owl section about Crediting All).

Help your students master tricky writing skills with these FREE Editing and Revising Centers. Students in grades 2-5 will love this fun, collaborative way to practice editing and revising. Perfect for test prep and review.

I am the Queen of Typos. As I sit here writing this article about editing, I am nervous about the mistakes that I might make. The reality is that all writers- regardless of their age or experience- make errors. (Sometimes I have a professional editor look over my writing and then an 8-year-old in your classroom still finds an error! It happens.)

Prepare your students to succeed from the start. Before they put a single word on the page, have them set up their paper so that there will be plenty of room for revisions and edits when it comes time.

Many teachers think that I am a little crazy when they see how much of the paper I ask students to leave blank when they are drafting. I am a little crazy, but I promise that this is a game changer for students.

Students are much more likely to see where edits are needed and make the edits when there is space to do so. We are also telling them from the beginning that editing will be necessary. Everyone will need the space because everyone makes errors.

When we start editing and worrying about spelling during the drafting phase, we are curbing the creativity. It is so important that students are given the freedom to simply get all of their thoughts on paper. There should be no talk or concern about grammar, spelling, or handwriting.

After the drafting is complete, then students will need to work through the revising stage. This is the phase in the writing process where students are working to make their writing sound better by using a lead that hooks, more interesting words, dialogue, details, etc. Again, there should be no talk of spelling and mechanics.

Only after the drafting and revising are complete, do writers move on to the editing phase. Now, they are going to make their writing look better by focusing on things like capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

You can do this a few different ways in the classroom. Students can read their writing out loud to a partner or they can read it out loud to themselves. Another option is to have a few stuffed animals that students can read writing to on editing day.

Love your resources and am so grateful that I have them for online teaching this year. I really like how you have made a lot of your resources digital. Do you have any tips or strategies for conferencing or just teaching, in general, in the workshop model?

Hi Amy! I absolutely have posts, videos, and podcasts about conferencing and writing workshop in general. This category is full of all kinds of helpful tips about teaching writing:

Have a Not So Wimpy Day,

Jamie

I need to keep in mind that when I edit the work, the work has changed but not the writer! Great thing to keep in mind. This pairs nicely with perfection is not the goal! Thanks for the reminders, they keep me motivated to keep going with the process.

Hello! I loved reading this and it definitely takes some of the pressure off when teaching kids how to write and edit. I wanted to know, what do you think about K-1 students writing? There are state standards for researching a topic and writing about it for these grade levels but personally (and from observation and experience), this is a very difficult and unrealistic expectation, in my opinion.

Thanks!

Do you struggle to find time to teach writing? Do you find it a challenge to deliver lessons that help all of your writers? Would you like to learn a simple and effective way to teach writing? The Not So Wimpy Writing Masterclass is an online professional development course for grades 2-5. In this course, you will go from feeling overwhelmed to feeling confident and excited about teaching writing.

Instead of feeling defeated by the lack of spelling, grammar, and punctuation on social media, let it be an inspiration! I propose we use the social networking interests of our students to create fun and interactive revising and editing worksheets. If we have students use social media for editing practice, it may just influence them to improve their own tweets, Instagram posts etc.

Writing Centers

Include a worksheet at a center and have students choose a tweet to edit. This can be done as a group with corrections presented to the entire class, or it can be done individually with students comparing corrections. The teacher can present corrections at each center.

Peer Work

Give each pair of students a tweet worksheet with all of the celebrity tweets on it and have them complete it together. Each pair can present to the class and share their edits, and the class can give feedback.

Group Work

Similar to writing centers, a group of three or four works on all of the celebrity tweets on the worksheet and comes to a consensus about the corrections. The group presents to the class when completed.

Download the Editing Celebrity Tweets worksheets to start using social media for editing practice. My free download includes 10 tweets that students can edit, an answer key with reasons for the edits, and a blank worksheet for students to take home or work on in class to find their own tweets with errors.

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