Key Strategies for Teaching Editing: Punctuation, Grammar, and Spelling

Editing—the next step in writing once the key ideas are put on paper—can be difficult to teach. For teachers, it is often difficult to find lessons to engage students in the process. For students, editing is frequently an afterthought. In Key Strategies for Teaching Editing, the authors present interesting meaningful ways to teach students good editing skills. Leochko and Rossi also show how students who use these editing skills can become good writers. Key Strategies is divided into three sections: punctuation, grammar, and spelling. Each section has several lessons. Each lesson includes: Reference Sheet — mini-lesson about rules and usage Editing Sheet — authentic piece of writing that gives students opportunities to apply writing conventions in meaningful ways Answer Key — answers for the editing sheet