Grammar Paragraph Editing | Animal Research | Capitalization Punctuation AUS UK
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Description
Do you want to fit in science & geography while your students work on a differentiated NO-PREP literacy activity? Here's a reading, editing, rewriting, and online research packet all about koalas. Students read a passage, edit it for paragraph breaks, capitalization and punctuation, and then rewrite it correctly. Extension activities include map work and easy online research about koalas.
⚫ This resource is in UK / AUS English. Click HERE for US English. ⚫
Literacy Skills Addressed:
✅ Capitalization at the beginning of a sentence
✅ Capitalization of proper nouns
✅ Punctuation (full stop, question mark, exclamation point, comma)
✅ Comma placement for items in a list
✅ Paragraph breaks & indentation
Map Skills Addressed:
✅ Labeling continents and oceans on a world map
✅ Identifying areas on a map as described in a passage
➽ Please make sure you check out the product preview to see everything that's included!
You’ll be giving your boys and girls a long passage with no punctuation, capitals, or paragraph breaks. Their job is to figure out where the paragraphs and sentences end, edit the sentences, and then rewrite them with correct capitalization and punctuation, as well as neat handwriting. Then, they move on to some online research!
INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE:
✏️ Detailed lesson plans
✏️ Lessons to introduce editing and editing marks
✏️ Editing marks anchor charts
✏️ "How do I Know Where the Sentences End?" anchor charts
✏️ Koala-themed editing passage
✏️ Online research tips and links
✏️ 3 koala research pages
✏️ 2 map pages
✏️ Themed cover page to make student packets
✏️ Answer keys
There are TWO LEVELS so you can differentiate in your classroom:
- Long passage to edit that students break into paragraphs
- Long passage to edit that is already broken up into paragraphs
Great to use for:
- Literacy Centers
- Independent Work
- Part of Guided Reading
- Assessment
- Enrichment
- Review
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