Editing My Work

Page Element Remember

Use them for:
¨ I used a CAPITAL letter to start every word in my title
¨ Beginning of sentence
Capital Letters
¨ Proper nouns
¨ Not for common nouns

¨ Put a happy face m next to your indents

¨ My title font is larger than my paragraph font
Neatness
¨ My writing is clean and neat
¨ I used white-out for mistakes
¨ There are no crossed out words

¨ I used this checklist to edit my work.

Editing
¨ I asked a friend to use this checklist to edit my work

¨ I am handing in a “rough copy” that shows my mistakes

Drafts ¨ I am handing in a “good copy” that shows I have corrected

my mistakes
Story Element Remember
Add a sparkly star if it is:
¨ Interesting
¨ Short
Topic Sentence ¨ General
¨ NOT “I am going to tell you about…”
Mrs. Lacelle will NO T read your paragraph if it
starts like this
¨ Put a green dot on the period of every long sentence
¨ Put a yellow dot on the period of every short sentence
¨ I followed the pattern:
Sentence ➭ Compound Sentence
Patterns ➭ Simple Sentence
➭ Compound Sentence
➭ Simple Sentence
¨ I did not add extra words
¨ Add a red dot above each proper noun
¨ Add a blue dot above every pronoun
¨ I followed the pattern
Pronouns 1. Proper noun (Mrs. Lacelle)
2. Pronoun (she)
3. Proper noun (Mrs. Lacelle)
4. Pronoun (she)

¨ Underline your favourite sentence in black

Stand-out ¨ Underline your weakest sentence in red
Sentences
 Grammar
Remember
Element
¨ Highlight all coordinating conjunctions in purple
Coordinating ➭ I used a comma before the coordinating conjunction
Conjunctions
¨ I used the class sentences to help me

¨ Highlight all correlative conjunctions in blue

Correlative
Conjunctions ¨ I used the class sentences to help me

¨ Highlight all frequency adverbs in green

➭ I added at least 2 frequency adverbs
Frequency ➭ I placed the adverb before the verb in a sentence
Adverbs
➭ I placed the adverb after the verb “to be” in the
sentence

¨ Highlight all conjunctive adverbs in orange

¨ I used correct punctuation
➭ full sentence
Conjunctive ➭ semicolon ; or period .
Adverbs ➭ conjunctive adverb
➭ comma ,

¨ I used the class sentences to help me

¨ Highlight all adverbs of manner in yellow

¨ I placed the adverb correctly
➭ after the verb
Adverbs of
➭ before the verb or
manner
➭ after the direct object
¨ I added -ly to the adjective

¨ I used the class sentences to help me