Edit Titles With Italics, Underlining and Quotes

Have your child read the text once for meaning, then again hunting for one kind of mistake. Ask them to say the rule out loud for each fix. Afterward, use the rubric on a piece of your child's own writing.

Edit titles by underlining long works and using quotes for short works, then write two sentences. Show a title with underlining or quotation marks, by its length. The directions on the page read: Read the rules and the example. Then, underline each title of a long work and put quotation marks around each title of a short work. Then, write 2 sentences of your own: one with a long work and one with a short work. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 5th Grade writing process, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with editing. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Commas after introductory words, consistent verb tense, how titles are shown, capitals and spelling (L.5.1 and L.5.2). Reading the piece once for each kind of mistake catches more than one read for everything.

Long works, such as books and movies, are underlined when handwritten or set in italics when typed. Short works, such as songs, poems and articles, go in quotation marks (L.5.2.D).

A tense shift is when a writer switches between past and present for no reason, as in She walked to the store and buys milk. The report page has seven of these to fix and asks your child to explain one fix.

Yes. All seven editing sheets have an answer key, including the peer review rubric page.

Fifth graders plan, revise, edit and rewrite with some guidance from adults and peers (CCSS W.5.5). The work shifts toward research and argument: taking notes, paraphrasing, listing sources and answering a counterclaim. These sheets give each of those steps its own page.

Have your child read the passage, cover it, and say the idea out loud in their own words before writing. Then compare with the source and change any long string of the same words. The paraphrase page shows a source with choices first, so your child sees what a good paraphrase looks like.

Sentence variety means mixing short and long sentences and starting them in different ways, so writing does not sound choppy (L.5.3.A). The three sentence variety pages have children combine short sentences, cut extra words and count words to vary sentence length.

19 of the 28 sheets have an answer key, including every editing and sentence variety page. The 9 planners and open writing pages, such as the argument planner, the story lead page and the setting builder, have no key, since each child writes their own piece.