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Help children to practise proofreading with this worksheet. They must read the sentences about Mr Worth’s gardening and spot the spelling and punctuation mistakes.

Answers are provided, giving children the option to mark their own work.

• Key Stage: Key Stage 2
• Subject: English
• Topic: Evaluating and Editing
• Topic Group: Writing
• Year(s): Year 3
• Media Type: PDF
• Resource Type: Worksheet
• Last Updated: 12/07/2022
• Resource Code: E2WAT766

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Differentiated KS1 proofreading resources designed to help children in years 1 and 2 practise editing and proofreading a variety of texts.

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Autobiography worksheets for KS1 and KS2 learners to practise editing and proofreading a differentiated autobiography text written by a teacher.

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Six differentiated versions of an Elections editing task to practise proofreading a text, identifying incorrect spellings, grammar and use of punctuation.

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19 Activity Ideas For Precise Proofreading 

February 9, 2023 //  by  Rebecca Przy

Proofreading and editing are important parts of the writing process. When I start writing something, my initial priority is the content. I save the finetuning of spelling, punctuation, and grammar for the final stages. Proofreading is key for this!

As your students begin learning how to write; from journal entries to essays, incorporating proofreading is a crucial component for clear and effective writing. Here are 19 activity ideas for students of all ages to practice their proofreading skills!

1. Daily Proofreading Practice (K – Grade 2)

The more your students practice, the better their proofreading abilities will be. Here are some pre-made writing slips which will encourage younger students to practice their capitalization, spelling, punctuation, and grammar rules.

Learn More: Teachers Pay Teachers

2. Sentence Experts (Grades 1 – 3)

Online games can be a great way for your students to have fun practicing their language skills at home. This activity involves sentence-level editing. Your students can drag and drop the characters to correct the errors.

Learn More: Mr. Nussbaum

3. Editing Passages: Whole Class Activity (Grades 1 – 6)

Here’s a great editing practice for the whole class. The goal is to identify mistakes in a written passage on the board. You can throw a ball to a student who must identify an error within a given time limit. If they cannot, a new student tries.

Learn More: Teach Starter

4. Proofreading: Basketball (Grades 2 – 4)

Do any of your students like basketball? Choosing stories with topics that your students are interested in can make the editing process that much more enjoyable. Through proofreading this story, your students can also learn how to use the correct proofreading symbols.

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5. Proofreading: The Beach (Grades 2 – 4)

If your students aren’t big into basketball, you could try this passage about the beach. These short paragraphs make excellent proofreading practice for younger elementary students.

6. Proofreading Cards (Grades 3 – 5)

This proofreading activity includes 20 cards with different spelling or grammar errors. Your students can examine the sentences, record their corrections on the answer sheet, and then compare them with their peers!

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7. Irregular Verbs: My Journey to Manchester (Grade 3 – 5)

This passage about a train journey contains a variety of errors regarding verb tense. Through this worksheet, learners can practice identifying these errors and correcting them. Should it be past or present tense?

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8. Irregular Verbs: A Sightseeing Holiday in Paris (Grades 3 – 5)

Here’s another flawed piece of writing that your students could use to develop their verb tense understanding. Their writing could improve by using these editing worksheets and remembering to use the correct verb forms.

9. Paragraph Proofreading (Grades 4 – 6)

Here are some engaging writing pieces for upper elementary students. Your students can try reading through these paragraphs while checking for various mistakes, including comma errors, capitalization errors, and others. Each passage includes an editing checklist!

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10. Extreme Sentence Surgeons (Grades 4 – 6)

This is a surgery-style online game that gets your students to rescue and fix the severely “injured” paragraphs. The paragraphs are ridden with many common and glaring errors. Are your students’ editing skills keen enough to help?

11. Musical Papers: Peer Editing Activity (Grades 5 – 9)

You’ve probably heard of musical chairs, but what about musical papers? Students walk around each others’ tables while music is playing. Once the music stops, your students can stop and edit the work at the nearest desk. Each round can involve different aspects of proofreading.

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12. Spell Checker Worksheet (Grades 6 – 8)

Incorrect spelling is such a common error in my students’ writing. Practicing spelling can improve your students’ editing skills and make for a more efficient writing process. These worksheets contain a mix of correct and incorrect commonly misspelled words for your students to correct.

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13. Proofread Celebrity Social Media (Grade 6 – 9)

It might be more fun to practice proofreading using a celebrity’s casual social media posts versus more formal writing. In this activity, your students can correct and re-write the social media posts. Then, they can provide the reasoning behind their edits.

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14. Proofread Music Lyrics (Grades 7 – 10)

Like social media posts, the music that these celebrities make can also contain various grammatical errors. Similar to the last activity, your students can revise the lyrics and then explain their revisions.

15. Grammar Bell Ringer (Grade 9 – 12)

Bell ringers can make a great class transition activity for older kids who are juggling multiple courses in a day. This 10-minute activity consists of sentences with a variety of errors that your students can try to fix.

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16. Language Arts Bell Ringers (Grade 9 – 12)

You can download this free 4-week set of language arts bell ringers for your secondary students. The Monday bell ringers are most relevant to proofreading as your students would have to correct the errors in a piece of writing. 

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17. Paragraph Correction

This resource has a list of free paragraph correction worksheets for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. The passages contain many kinds of errors, including grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors for your students to practice proofreading.

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18. COPS Checklist

Editing checklist tools can be great for detecting a variety of errors before your students submit their final draft of writing. This checklist looks for correct capitalization, proper organization, punctuation errors, and spelling errors (COPS). 

19. More Checklists

These additional editing checklists can be used to evaluate the content of more specific types of writing, such as narrative or persuasive writing. This bundled resource also includes basic spelling, grammar, and punctuation checklists.

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April 27, 2018 CG Lessons K-5 , ELA K-5 , ELA Resources - Activities , ELA Focus - Writing , ELA Focus - Grammar , Core Grammar

A fun proofreading activity for students in grades 3–5, by: tiffany rehbein.

We all have had those moments. We have just hit the Send button on our email, and we see that one word. That one that is misspelled. That one that should have had an apostrophe. That one misplaced modifier, leaving your audience thinking that you saw dinosaurs on a field trip to the museum.

Download the Proofreading Activity for grades 3–5 now!

Proofreading activity for students grades 3–5.

Proofreading is a skill that must be practiced. As students’ progress through their schooling, this skill must be honed year after year. What better way to improve proofreading skills than through a fun proofreading activity !

The 20 cards provided here provide students an opportunity to write and practice a variety of opportunities to improve proofreading skills.

To begin this great proofreading activity, download the Proofreading Cards, Recording Sheet, and Answer Key. You can choose to laminate each Proofreading Card to extend its lifetime. Students will read the Proofreading Card and write their answer on the Recording Sheet.

You can print one set of cards per student or one total set and have students pass them around. The number on the Recording Sheet corresponds with the number on the Proofreading Card. You can quickly walk around and assess students or have students check each other’s work!

To help students improve their skills, download my proofreading activity now. Students can use this activity in centers or when there is extra time in class.

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Proofreading is an essential life and exam skill for KS3 and GCSE students to develop. These accessible resources will take them step by step through the process, to help them to edit their own work more effectively. 

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