4th - 7th Grade Editing and Revising Resources

Give learners a chance to hone their copyediting skills with this one-page grammar worksheet!

Kids revise run-on sentences with this worksheet.

With an emphasis on grammar, mechanics, and style, this checklist is a great way to help writers hone their editing skills and gain familiarity with the writing process.

Help your beginning writer become an excellent essay-writer with this helpful proofreading practice sheet.

With this middle-school revision checklist, students will be guided to review their informational writing with a critical eye in order to improve their writing.

Assess your students’ ability to revise incomplete or run-on sentences.

Learn how to use coordinating conjunctions and practice using them in sentences.

The key to a strong story is superb editing. Students are asked to read the short story, then come up with compliments, suggestions, and corrections to improve the story.

Students practice expressing ideas precisely and concisely by revising sentences to remove vague and redundant words or phrases.

Help students cover proper punctuation, capital letters, grammar and spelling with this editing checklist as they edit their peer's work.

Children learn editor's marks for a variety of grammar, formatting, spelling, and punctuation errors, then practice using them to read and edit a short paragraph.

Add some spice to your writing by varying sentence patterns with this two-page writing worksheet for sixth graders!

Assess kids' revision process knowledge with this worksheet.

Add, remove, move, and substitute! Use this fun revising strategy to revise a sample essay.

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

Can your child help Sarah make her writing less repetitive? This sentence combining exercise will help your child, too!

In this paragraph editing page, kids will have a great time editing this love letter from a Victorian gentleman.

Read through a student’s how-to and tips for touring the Pentagon. While reading, students will decide if they should use a preposition or conjunction in the text.

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

Sharpen and assess your students’ proofreading skills with this worksheet that will also prepare them for peer editing.

Partners will work together to complete this worksheet as they participate in peer editing.

With this exercise, your students will master the art of revision using standard editing marks.

Whether students are revising handwritten drafts or work that has been written on the computer, this activity will serve as a resource to help your writers understand some basic word processing tools.