Katie Oller

4th Grade
Editing Lesson Plan
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Purpose: Students will practice editing skills through various editing

exercises.
SOL: Writing 4.8: The student will edit writing for correct grammar,
capitalization, speling, punctuation, sentence structure, and paragraphing.
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Use subject-verb agreement

Include prepositional phrases
Eliminate double negatives
Use noun-pronoun agreement
Use commas in series, dates and addresses.
Incorporate adjectives and adverbs
Use correct spelling for frequently used words, including common
homophones
h) Use singular possessives
Objective: Given an editing assignment, students will correctly identify
and correct 80% of the errors.
Procedure:
Introduction: Students will be given a short paragraph with errors. They
will be asked to read the paragraph to themselves.
Development: Students will be asked to review and correct the errors
using the appropriate editing symbols on their own paper.
Summary: Once students have corrected their paragraph on their paper, I
will pull up the same paragraph on the promethean board. I will call
students one by one to come up to the board to write their corrections. We
will have a class discussion about if the correction is correct or not, and
why this correction makes sense in the paragraph.
Materials
Editing paragraph
Pencils
Promethean board
Evaluation Part A: I will informally evaluate which students are
participating in correcting the editing sheet to see which students are
finding the errors. I will only call on students once so that all students
have the opportunity to participate.
Evaluation Part B:
Did the students meet your objectives?

How do you know?

Did your lesson accommodate/address the needs of all your

learners?

What were the strengths of the lesson?

What were the weaknesses?

How would you change the lesson if you could teach it again?