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editing activities
By Kennedy

I have worked with teacher who use a book called, "Caught Ya - Grammar with a Giggle" by Jane Bell Kiester. It contains stories/activities that focus on editing and proofreading skills, as well as vocabulary. When we are
completing the writing process, I can tell them to "find and fix 3 'Caught Ya' mistakes" and they have a good idea of the type of mistakes they're looking for.

I have come to develop my own activites that my students complete daily as a warm-up. I type out a sentence or two for each day on a template that the students keep and use for 4 or 5 days. Students need to read the sentences,

and identify and correct the errors. I let them know how many errors there are each day. After they have a chance to work on it, we go over as a class. This helps them recognize spelling, punctuation, capitalization, word choice, errors, etc, as well as editing marks. It's actually quite similar to what may call "DOL" or "DLA". I've found it to be effective.