Lesson Plan:

Writing
Editing
Objectives

Group Size &

Materials

Date: October 26th , 2016

Grade: Grade 5 English
Time: 10:30am
School: Royal Vale
Duration: 45 minutes
Elementary School
By the end of this lesson, the students will be able to:
Understand what editing is.
Understand the procedure for proof reading and peer editing.
Identify errors of grammar, punctuation and spelling within
simple text.
27 students

Time
10min

25min

Descriptive composition sheets (from previous day).

Sentence stencil (27 copies).
Pencils
Colored pens or pencils.
White paper
Powerpoint presentation
SmartBoard + Computer with Internet connection
Short Story The Night It Rained by JP Clark.
Lesson

Introduction:
Present the guiding question How can we edit our writing? or What
are the different techniques/ways to edit our writing?
Allow time for the students to respond to the question as a class,
through discussion.
Write down students ideas on the SmartBoard to validate their answers.
Then present the lessons topic: Editing through proof reading, first
individually and later on, in pairs.
Write down the definition of Editing, Proof Reading, and Peer Editing
on the SmartBoard.
Then, state the purpose of this lesson: to provide students with at least
two editing techniques to help them review their descriptive writing
pieces related to their Show and Tell project.
Stress the importance of proofreading and editing all assignments,
including in their daily lives (letters, e-mails, cards, jobs, etc.)
Development:
With the help of the prepared PowerPoint presentation, the students will
play a guessing game, whereby they will correct the descriptive
sentence, and guess who/what is being described.
The students will be given instructions to read and look for errors in
punctuation, spelling and grammar, and finish by guessing.
Tell students to take out a colored pen/pencil for corrections.
Two students will hand out the stencil to the entire class, so that they
can complete the sentences, and follow along during the lesson.
The powerpoint will begin.
Each sentence will be read aloud by the teacher and/or selected
students.
After each sentence has been read aloud, the class will be given a
moment to individually review the sentence which was just read.
Then, the whole class will correct the sentences errors together and
guess who/what the description is describing.
Students are expected to write down the corrected sentences on their
stencil handout.

First
Name:

________________________________ Last Name: __________________________ Alpha:

_________ Rm: __________ Date: ____________________________________________

Guess Who
Each sentence contains mistakes. Please help me fix them. Pay close
attention to spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
1. each year, i am celebrate on october 31st.
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2. I am wround orange and carved into many difirent disignz.
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3. Im extremely popular on Halloween nite Im delicious I can cause
cavities if eat me to often.
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4. I aM many people greatest feer. i am an insect whith ate creapy crawly
legs.
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5. I where a pointey black hat, i ryde on an old broomstick, and cast
terrible spels on young trick or treeters.
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6. I am made of many wighte peices, caled bones. I am bear beacose I
have no skin.

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7. You cant sea me but you can heer me when I screem boo.
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8. I am a grotesk green monster created in a labretorey after a scarrey
sience experimint.
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9. i is a black furry four leged fealine and a whitch are my best friend
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10.
I has sharpe fangs for teeth and I drynk blood. My animale forme
is a bat.
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11.
I am used bye whiches two brew desgusting ingredients when
make poisonous potsions
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12.
Only gosts live hear bcause I am A place thats so terrify.
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13.

I titely wraped up. egypt I come from.

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14.
I am black. I am an flying animal. I sleep upside down always.
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15.
My apearences similar to a dog, and I likes to howl at the moon.
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Jokes
Which ghost is the best dancer?
-- The Boogie Man!

What is a witchs favorite school subject?

-- Spelling!
How do you make a skeleton laugh?
-- Tickle its funny bone!
What do ghosts serve for dessert?
-- Ice Scream!
Whats a ghosts favorite candy?
-- Boo-ble gum!
What does a skeleton order at a restaurant?
-- Ribs!