5th - 8th Grade Editing and Revising Resources

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Encourage students to share their writing with classmates and receive feedback to improve their writing with this peer publishing worksheet.

Uh oh, I spy a typo! This activity will serve as a resource to help your writers understand some basic strategies and copyediting symbols for polishing their writing.

This checklist creates a healthy habit of evaluating any typed writing. Students will check for font, spacing, indentation, illustrations, grammar, and areas of improvement.

Challenge your kids to translate LOL into an academic sentence! Give your students extra practice rewriting online comments so that they fit the academic setting.

This worksheet is designed to provide additional support for students who need extra practice with the basic revising and editing skills.

Students will use this fun and colorful revision technique to edit a piece of sample writing.