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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “FREE! Editing Sentences Task Cards to Help Students with Revising & Proofreading”

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by Rachel Lynette
3rd – 5th Grade

These 8 editing sentence cards with engaging FUN FACTS are perfect for helping your students practice proofreading or reinforce their editing skills. These are a sample of our full set with 200 task cards!

  • The cards are divided into two motivating subjects!
  • There are four cards per subject.
  • Each card has exactly three errors for students to correct.
  • By using four cards at a time, your students will not only get plenty of editing practice, but they will also learn four fun facts about a given topic.
  • This is a great way to mix editing with informational text!

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

✍️ PRINT:

  • 8 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)
    • Black-line
    • Color
  • Recording Sheets
  • Answer Keys
  • Challenge Card & Cover Card

DIGITAL:

  • Google Slides

DIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:

  • Digital or Print
  • Challenge Card to extend the lesson
  • Multiple versions of the recording sheet included

Great for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade! 

CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE!

The full resource is part of a money-saving bundle!

This bundle includes these resources:

NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. 

There are also two answer key cards; one per subject. One way to store these cards is to keep them in sets of five: the four task cards and the answer key card for each subject.

The cards reinforce a variety of skills, including:

  • punctuation
  • capitalization
  • verb tenses
  • possessives
  • contractions
  • singular/plural nouns
  • homophones
  • compound words
  • subject-verb agreement
  • pronoun antecedent agreement
  • spelling
  • “a” vs. “an”
  • comparative and superlative adjectives

Suggestions for Use:

  • Use one card at a time with the entire class using a projector. Select a volunteer to edit the card on the whiteboard.
  • Leave a subset or the entire set at a center and allow students to work through them at their own pace.
  • Print the black-line version and use it for interactive notebooks. Students can glue the cards in their notebooks, correct directly on the cards using editing marks, and then rewrite the sentences.
  • Have students work on cards with partners, comparing their sentences before correcting them.
  • Save answer sheets over the course of the year and use them to make a Fun Facts book for students to keep.

* All facts were found in the book: 5,000 Facts (About Everything), National Geographic Kids, 2012

Please note that these cards are somewhat United States-centric, meaning that measurements are not given in metric and words are spelled using US English. Since they are editing cards, they may not be appropriate for those living outside the US.

Teacher Tip

Here’s what teachers are saying about the 200 task cards set:

✏️ “Um, editing skills? Yes, please! Why? They help my students become better writers without the same pressure that editing their own work puts on them. How does this make them better writers? It fine tunes their eyes for common errors and mistakes, thus making them better at catching their own mistakes when they write or read over their own writing for their peer’s writing. Honestly, I love all your resources, so, obviously, I count this as another excellent tool to have in my teacher toolbox.” -Ariane O.

✏️ “My students have enjoyed these cards. They are quite versatile – we have used them with the recording sheet and as a game. Great resource for reviewing editing skills!” -Lisa V.

✏️ “These tasks are great practice for students. My students enjoy finding all the mistakes. They also enjoy the interesting facts on each card.” -Sherry T.

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About the Author

Rachel Lynette is a published author of over 120 nonfiction books for children on a variety of subjects, as well as several teacher resource books. She has written for publishers such as Harcourt, Thompson-Gale, Rosen, Children’s Press, Evan-Moor, Kagan, and several others. This resource reflects more than a decade of professional writing experience.

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This resource was created by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack for Minds in Bloom INC., all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded. 

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This product is happily brought to you by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack of Minds in Bloom.

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