A Set of 3rd Grade Editing Practice Worksheets

Bring practical editing skills to your classroom with these engaging and effective worksheets that align with key 3rd-grade language standards.

This set of five 3rd grade editing practice worksheets has been designed to give your students practice in a variety of key editing skills.

Each editing worksheet contains the following activities:

• Incomplete Sentences – Students correct the incomplete sentences in the passage by fixing any punctuation errors and adding any missing punctuation.
• Spelling and Punctuation – Students correct the spelling errors and punctuation errors within the passage.
• Adjectives and Verbs – Students identify the adjectives and verbs from the selection of words provided.

It is recommended that students use a colored pen or highlighter to indicate the changes needed in the passages. Alternatively, they could rewrite the entire passage correctly in their notebooks.

These 3rd grade editing practice worksheets download as an easy-print PDF or an editable Google Slides file. Answers are included in both file options.

Using These 3rd Grade Editing Practice Worksheets in Your Classroom

Here are some ideas as to how you use these editing practice worksheets for 3rd grade in your lessons:

• Teacher-Guided Activity – Project one of the worksheets onto your interactive whiteboard, then work through the exercises as a guided, whole-class activity.
• Collaborative Group Work – Place a copy of one of the worksheets in a dry erase sleeve and have students work on it together as a literacy rotation activity.
• Independent Practice – Provide the students with a copy of the worksheets and have them work on them as an independent practice activity.

Download These 3rd Grade Editing Practice Worksheets

Use the dropdown menu on the Download button to access your preferred version of these editing worksheets for 3rd grade. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides version to your personal drive before accessing it.)

As this resource contains answer sheets, we recommend printing one copy of the entire file. Then, remove the answer sheets and make photocopies of the worksheets as required.

This resource was created by Lauren Borst, a teacher in Indiana and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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