Finding Errors

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Grade Level

• Elementary School

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Subject

• Language

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Length of Time

• 45 Minutes

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Description

• This lesson has a worksheet where students will look at the sentences and correct the mistakes. This lesson is for fourth and fifth grade students.

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Goals

• Students will learn:
  
  * To edit sentences
  
  * To proofread their work
  
  * To correct errors
  

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Materials Needed

• * The worksheet I have included in this lesson
  
  * Pencils and erasers
  

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Procedure

• First, you will copy the worksheet so that each one will have a copy.
  
  Then, you will write the following examples on the board so they can see how to do the worksheet.
  
  Example: Tom and Mary went two a movie?
  There are two mistakes in this sentence: Change two to the word to and the question mark to a period.
  
  
  
  Worksheet - Finding Errors
  
  Directions - In the following sentences, you need to find all the errors and rewrite the sentences correcting the mistakes.
  
  1. Bobby went outside to play with tom?
  
  
  
  2. The Season I like best was Winter.
  
  
  
  3. Molly and Candy went to the Bookstore so she could bought books.
  
  
  
  4. It's time too go two the grocery store to by a few groceries befor the storm come, Jane said?
  
  
  
  5. Hear she came, Jackie said.
  
  
  
  6. I like watch mystery shows.
  
  
  
  7. I like bying mystery books?
  
  
  
  8. The wind blue strong and it is cold.
  
  
  
  9. It snows for inches yesterday.
  
  
  
  10. Fourty came after fifty.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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Grading

• Each sentence is worth 10 points. Five points for finding the errors, and five points for correcting the mistakes.
  
  100 to 90 = A
  
  89 to 80 = B
  
  79 to 70 = C
  
  69 to 60 = D
  
  Below 60 = F
  
  

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