To follow up on my last-week’s post about teaching kids to revise, here is some more specific information about my revising resources designed especially for quick practices on specific revising skills.
Revising Task Cards
Revising Task Cards is a set of 30 large task cards, with plenty of content on each card for a middle grade student, that provides individual practice on these revising skills:
Removing unnecessary words
Replacing common words
Using pronouns to replace nouns
Changing word order
Changing tense or point of view
Using active instead of passive voice
Using direct quotes
Adding figurative language
Sentence Renovation – This set includes twelve activities for revising sentences by using modifiers, vivid vocabulary, phrases, and clauses. The activities include expanding, revising, and writing sentences and paragraphs by adding or replacing specific parts of speech, prepositional phrases, independent clauses, dependent clauses, and figurative language. Fun activities include a picture prompt activity, a “refrigerator magnet” activity, and quiz game questions.
Revise and Proofread Worksheet Set
This Revise and Proofread Worksheet Set consists of fifteen worksheets and addresses these revising topics:
adding descriptive words
omitting unnecessary words
revising to change tense
and these proofreading topics:
choosing the correct homophone
Four Seasons Revise and Edit
Four Seasons Revise and Edit provides practice with a large number of specific revising and editing (or proofreading) skills. There are eleven student activity sheets and four group activities. The theme of the content is fun activities for the four seasons.