checking to make sure that no new mistakes were added during content editing or copyediting. Have volunteers read aloud the rest of the section. Ask students why Elsa should add a comma after twice. (Every item in a series has a comma after it.) Then have a volunteer locate in Elsa’s draft the sentence with the incorrect tense. Remind students to make certain that the tense in the sentences of their draft is consistent.
Tell students that a common editing mistake is to make corrections and then not proofread the corrections. Read aloud this section and point out the proofreading marks at the bottom of the page. Briefly explain what each symbol represents. Refer students to Elsa’s revision on pages 246–247 as a model for using proofreading marks. Then allow time for partners to proofread each other’s drafts.
TEACHING OPTIONS Proof It Again Tell students that after the corrections have been made and a clean copy written or printed, it is a good idea to proofread a piece of writing again. Have students first make sure that they included all the corrections. Then have students proofread the piece to make sure they did not miss something the first time through. If students used a computer, tell them to make sure there are no typing errors.
Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA.W.5.5 CCSS.ELA.W.5.10 CCSS.ELA.L.5.1, L.5.2
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Copyediting
Meaning
Proofreading
COMMON PROOFREADING MARKS Symbol
Revising
Ask a partner to use the Proofreader’s Checklist to check your draft. Make sure that the changes from your partner are correct.
Content Editing
Your Turn
Drafting
Elsa thought that a proofreader might catch mistakes that she had missed. Elsa’s neighbor, Ms. Gabriel, often helped Elsa with her English homework. While proofreading, Ms. Gabriel would check the grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Ms. Gabriel used the Proofreader’s Checklist to help keep her organized. Ms. Gabriel found a misspelled word in the second paragraph. Can you find it? Ms. Gabriel found one punctuation mistake. In the first sentence, Elsa put a comma after the word once, but she forgot to put a comma after twice.
Conventions
In the fourth paragraph, Elsa had written Then Bricks starts rapping over my beat. Ms. Gabriel told Elsa that she needed to use the same verb tense throughout. Ms. Gabriel suggested replacing starts with started.
Prewriting
Proofreading
Example over. Begin a new
close up space
close u p space
insert
students think
delete, omit
that the the book
make lowercase
Mathematics
reverse letters
reves re letters
capitalize
washington
add quotation marks
I am, I said.
add period
Marta drank tea
Personal Narratives
Publishing
begin new paragraph
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