Edit a Paragraph for Comma Errors

Use each editing sheet after the matching grammar lesson, such as pronoun case or commas. The CUPS checklist can then guide students as they edit their own drafts.

Fix 10 comma errors, 7 missing and 3 extra, in The Cup-Stacking Robot paragraph. Commas go after introductory elements, around extra information, between a city and state, after a name someone is speaking to and before a conjunction that joins two sentences. The directions on the page read: This paragraph has 10 comma errors. Seven commas are missing, and 3 commas do not belong. Fix each error with the editing marks in the box. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th 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.

CUPS stands for capitals, usage, punctuation and spelling. Editing Checklist and Practice has students find 10 errors in Cleanup Day at Riverside Park and sort each one by its CUPS letter.

The sheets tell students how many to find: 8 pronoun errors in The Windy Hike, 10 comma errors in The Cup-Stacking Robot, 12 errors in Nadia's letter and 10 in the CUPS paragraph.

On Edit a Paragraph for Run-Ons and Fragments, yes. Students label 11 word groups in The Night Market and then rewrite the paragraph with 3 run-ons and 3 fragments fixed.