EDITING REVIEW

EDITING REVIEW

KUB OBJECTIVES

We will KNOW how to apply our editing skills to an editing passage. 

We will UNDERSTAND that we must think deep about our editing skills to decide which answer to choose. 

We will BE ABLE to show mastery of editing skills by answering STAAR stem editing questions.

What is editing?

When we edit our writing or someone else's writing, we look for mistakes made to specific writing skills. We will remember those specific writng skills using the acronym C.U.P.S.

What is C.U.P.S

The acronym C.U.P.S. helps us remember that when we are editing, we must make sure there are no capitalization, understandable, punctuation, or spelling errors in our writing.

Multiple Choice

What change if any should be made to the following sentence?

We traveled to Greece, france, and Spain last year.

• Change traveled to travel

• Change france to France

• Change the period to a question mark

• No change is needed

Multiple Choice

What change if any should be made to the following sentence?

The students is preparing to master the STAAR exam.

• Change STAAR to Staar

• Change students to Students

• Change is to are

• No change is needed

Multiple Choice

What change if any should be made to the following sentence?

I recently read a book called mr. Terrupt.

• Change mr. to Mr.

• Change book to Book

• Change read to reed

• No change is needed

Multiple Choice

What change if any should be made to the following sentence?

My hobbies include reading, walking and shoping.

• Change hobbies to hobbyies

• Change shoping to shopping

• Change reading to Reading

• No change is needed

Poll

How confident are you in your editing skills?

• 100%

• 75%

• 50%

• 0%