Editing My Work

Page Element Remember

Use them for:

 Put a red dot above every CAPITAL letter in your 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 NOT 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:
Compound Sentence
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 Element Remember
 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 purple

I added at least 2 frequency adverbs

Frequency Adverbs
I placed the adverb before the verb in a sentence
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
before the verb or
Adverbs of manner after the direct object
 I added -ly to the adjective

 I used the class sentences to help me