Use an Editing Checklist on a Model Paragraph

Have your child read the passage aloud once before marking anything, since run ons and missing commas are easier to hear. Look for one kind of mistake per read. Check with the answer key and talk through any missed fix.

Use an editing checklist on a model paragraph, find proof and fix three problems. To edit is to check capitals, end marks, commas and spelling. The directions on the page read: Read Omar's paragraph. Then, circle Yes if the paragraph does what the row says, or No if it does not, and write the sentence number that proves it. Then, fix the 3 problems by rewriting those sentences on the lines. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd 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.

Capital letters for names, places and the start of sentences, end marks, commas in lists, and the spelling of common words (L.3.2). Children also check that each sentence is complete and not two sentences run together.

Editing marks are small symbols that show a fix without rewriting the page, such as marks for a capital letter, a lowercase letter, a cut and an addition. The letter page teaches these marks before children use them.

A run on sentence is two or more sentences joined with no end mark, like We went to the lake we swam all day. The diary entry page has children split run ons with a period and a capital letter, then rewrite two of them.

Yes. All seven editing sheets have an answer key.

It is the set of steps writers use: plan, draft, revise, edit and share. CCSS W.3.5 asks 3rd graders to strengthen their writing with guidance from adults and peers by planning, revising and editing. These sheets give each step its own page, so a child can practice one step at a time.

Revising changes what the writing says: adding details, putting events in order or cutting a sentence that does not belong. Editing fixes the rules: capital letters, commas, end marks and spelling. Revise first, since there is no point fixing commas in a sentence that may be cut.

Talk the topic through first, then have your child fill the organizer with words and short phrases, not full sentences. The plan becomes the draft on lined paper. Keep the planner beside the draft so your child can check that every part made it in.

18 of the 28 sheets have an answer key, including every revising and editing page. The 10 planners and open writing pages have no key, since each child writes about their own ideas. For those, check that every box is filled and the plan fits the topic.