Edit It!

Find and fix capitals, punctuation, confused words, agreement, and tense in a short text.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 43

Good writers always edit. Editing means reading your writing again, slowly, to find and fix mistakes.
Check five things. One: capital letters. Two: punctuation, like commas and end marks.
Three: words that sound alike, like their, there, and they're. Four: verbs that match their subjects. Five: verbs that stay in the same tense.
Let's try one. The gulls was squawking all morning. Gulls is more than one, so it should be were.
Here's another. Yesterday we walk to the pier. Yesterday is the past, so it should be walked.
Your turn! Tap the word with the mistake.

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

4.P.EICC.4.h — Edit the text, ensuring it adheres to the conventions of written language. (C)
4.L.GC.2.b — Use a variety of simple, compound, and complex sentences to strengthen clarity and coherence, maintaining consistent verb tense within and between paragraphs. (C)
4.L.GC.2.c — Use correct subject-verb agreement to consistently achieve clarity in a variety of sentences. (C)