Proofreading Worksheet 1

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If you want to give students extra practice with reading skills, I have just the resource for you.

What You Get:

This is a Proofreading Worksheet that was designed for elementary students who are working on or have mastered this skill. It also works well as a review for students. This is a 2-page printable with an answer key included.

How To Implement This Resource:

You can print off enough copies of the worksheets for each student to have. You may also choose to print only a few copies and laminate those. If you choose to laminate them, students can use dry erase markers to complete the worksheet. This makes a great small group or reading center activity.

The Proofreading Worksheet has a short paragraph for students to read. As students read the paragraph, they will proofread and find mistakes. In this worksheet, there are 9 missing capital letters, 7 missing full stops, 3 missing commas, 4 missing speech marks and 1 missing exclamation mark.

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Identify and insert missing capital letters at the start of sentences and for proper nouns.
Add missing end punctuation, including periods and an exclamation mark, to complete sentences correctly.
Insert commas in a series and quotation marks around spoken dialogue.

Teaching tips

Have students total their own corrections against the story's known count of 24 mistakes and match it to the A-B-C scale for quick self-assessment.
Point out the dialogue near the end of the story before students begin, since quotation-mark placement is often the hardest of the five error types to catch.
Laminate the worksheet for dry-erase reuse if assigning it as a small-group or reading-center activity rather than a one-time printable.

Skills covered

Capitalization proofreading — students locate 9 missing capital letters, including the proper noun 'Aunt Carol' and sentence-initial words.
End punctuation and comma insertion — students add 7 missing periods and 3 missing commas across a list and dialogue ('soap, cornflakes, eggs and bread').
Dialogue punctuation — students add 4 missing quotation marks and 1 exclamation mark to correctly punctuate spoken dialogue ('Oh dear!' she exclaimed).

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How does the worksheet turn a proofreading check into a score?

Students total how many of the 24 planted errors they find and correct, then match that count to a built-in A-B-C scale, from 20-24 corrections for an A down to 10-14 for a C.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

L.3.2

Core concepts

Proofreading
Capitalization
Punctuation
Dialogue punctuation

Topics

Reading Passage Proofreading Story Proofreading Practice Reading Strategies Grammar Worksheet Capital Letters

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Categories this resource belongs to

ELA Worksheets Grammar Worksheets Punctuation Worksheets Elementary Worksheets 2nd Grade Worksheets 4th Grade Worksheets

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