Editing and Revising Tips

Proofread your work. Choose other tips you can do during this stage.

• Make sure you ask friend for proof reading your work.

• Make sure you ask friends for his additional ideas.

• Make sure you have complete sentences, correct spelling and punctuations.

• Think of an interesting title.

• Re read to see if each sentence makes sense.

What do you do during Revising? Check the correct answers.

• Use quotes or add dialogues.

• Include descriptive words.

• Write your ideas in order.

• Use a list or web to organise your ideas.

• Add details to develop important parts.

What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence? One day, Tom n., my classmate brought a drone to school.

• Change Tom n. to Tom N.

• Change brought to brung

• Change a to an

• No change needs to be made

Answer explanation

Proper nouns should be capitalized. First names and last names begin with a capital letter.

What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence? The house was made out of brick and I wondered how brick could twist like that.

• Change made to maid

• Insert a comma after brick

• Insert a comma after and

• No change needs to be made in sentence 10

When you have finished your rough draft, what 4 things should you make sure to check?

• It looks good enough so I'm done.

• capitalization, animal crackers, starbursts, and peanuts

• I don't want to.

• capitalization, indentions, punctuation, and spelling.

What DON'T you do when you edit?

• Add new ideas

• Fix the grammar

• Fix Spelling Mistakes

• Add punctuations

What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence? With our parent's assistence, each student was allowed to throw the flaming ball.

• Change parent's to parents

• Change assistence to assistance

• Change was to were

• No change needs to be made

What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence? My collection of football cards are made up of different players and teams.

• Change cards to card's

• Insert a comma after boomerangs

• Change are to is

• No change needs to be made

Answer explanation

The subject of this sentence is "collection". The word "collection" is a singular noun and needs to have a singular noun which is the word "is" and not "are".

Mrs. Watson said that our class would go on a field trip on March, 2 2015.

• Delete the comma after March and insert it after 2

• Add quotatiion marks before our and after 2015.

• Delete the comma after March

• The sentence is correct.

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important part of our monday morning assembly.

• ^{Change important to more important}

• Change an to a

• ^{Change monday to Monday}

• The sentence is correct