Editing
Did you read your story 8 times? Did you check for:
Complete sentences
Run-on sentences
Capitalization
Punctuation
Dialogue
Spelling
Paragraphs
Sentence starter no-no’s
Complete Sentences
- Did you write a complete thought?
- Does it make sense?
Big Run-on Sentences
- Did you write one big sentence without punctuation?
Capitalization
- The beginning of every sentence.
- The word – I
- Proper Nouns – a particular person, place, or thing.
- People’s names –Joe Smith
- Schools – Newfield Central
- Cities – Newfield
- States – New York
- Countries – United States
- Song titles – “Let It Be”
- Book titles – Silverwing
Punctuation
. ? ! , “ ” : ;
- A period, question mark, or an exclamation mark goat the end of a sentence.
- Commas in a list run, hop, skip, andjump
- Commas before - and but or
- Quotation Marks for dialogue. Put quotation marks around what comes out of the speaker’s mouth.
- Colon Put a colon after the salutation in a business letter. Dear Mrs. Terwilliger:
Dialogue
- Is dialogue written correctly?
- Have you started a new paragraph every time a new person speaks?
- Remember you can’t have 2 periods in1 sentence.
“ Stop that!” shouted Joe.
“What do you mean?” asked Tom.
“I am ten years old, said Mary.
Spelling
- Did you check all words?
- Did you check word wall words?
- Did you use a spell checker?
who their two
what they’re to
where there too
when hear also
how heard here
why herd
were a lot
Paragraphs
- Did you indent?
- Did you indent for the beginning, middle, and end of your story?
- Do you have a new paragraph for every idea change?
- Do you have a new paragraph for every change in time?
- Do you have a new paragraph for every new speaker in dialogue?
First Words of a sentence will never be:
so and but
because then next