teaching resource

3rd Grade Revising and Editing Passages

  • Updated

    Updated:  05 Nov 2024

Use this set of 3rd grade revising and editing passages to help your students demonstrate their spelling, punctuation and grammar knowledge.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  12 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Grade

    Grade:  3

Curriculum

teaching resource

3rd Grade Revising and Editing Passages

  • Updated

    Updated:  05 Nov 2024

Use this set of 3rd grade revising and editing passages to help your students demonstrate their spelling, punctuation and grammar knowledge.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  12 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Grade

    Grade:  3

Use this set of 3rd grade revising and editing passages to help your students demonstrate their spelling, punctuation and grammar knowledge.

A Set of 3rd Grade Revising and Editing Passages

Editing is a crucial skill for students to learn. It has many benefits, such as building attention to detail, improving clarity and enhancing self-expression.

Help your learners strengthen their language skills with this set of 3rd grade revising and editing passages. This resource contains 20 short editing passages crafted specifically for 3rd-grade students, covering age-appropriate topics that make grammar practice more authentic for students. Each passage is at the appropriate lexile level for 3rd graders, ensuring a comfortable reading experience while promoting essential language skills.

The language skills featured in this slide deck align with the Common Core standards for 3rd grade. The language skills addressed in this set of editing passages include:

  • Nouns 
  • Verbs
  • Adjectives
  • Pronouns
  • Conjunctions
  • Capitalization
  • End punctuation
  • Commas
  • Apostrophes
  • Spelling

3rd Grade Revising and Editing Passages: What to Expect

Each slide contains a short passage, an image and a set of instructions. The instructions inform students of the mistakes they need to find and fix within the passage. 

Following each slide is an answer slide where all of the required changes are highlighted in a different color from the rest of the text.

Prefer task cards to a slide deck? We have you covered! Use the drop-down menu on the Download button to choose your preferred file format for these 3rd grade editing passages from the options below:

  • Google Slides presentation
  • Google Slides editable task cards
  • PDF task cards

The task card option can be used in a variety of ways in your editing lessons, such as:

  • Bell ringer activity
  • Active scoot game
  • Reading center activity
  • Independent practice
  • Exit ticket

Download These 3rd Grade Editing Paragraphs

Use the Download button to access your preferred version of this resource. You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides presentation before accessing it.


Brittany Collins, a teacher in Indiana and a Teach Starter collaborator, contributed to this resource.


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