Check out the second video in my professional development series – a tutorial on how to use editing stations in your classroom:
HELPFUL LINKS
Gretchen Bernabei:
Home page: http://trailofbreadcrumbs.net/
Star Points & grammar: http://trailofbreadcrumbs.net/writing-strategies/star-points-grammar/
Professional books, including Grammar Keepers and Crunchtime: http://trailofbreadcrumbs.net/books/
Jeff Anderson:
Home page: http://www.writeguy.net/
Professional books, including Everyday Editing and Ten Things Every Writer Should Know: http://www.writeguy.net/professional-books/
And he’s written a great, funny series of fiction for middle grade kids – after all, the more they read, the more they absorb the conventions of language: http://www.writeguy.net/fiction-for-kids/
Barry Lane:
Home page: http://discoverwriting.com/
Handouts galore! http://discoverwriting.com/?page_id=91
Professional books and videos, including Reviser’s Toolbox and Lessons in Revision: http://discoverwriting.com/?page_id=1201
Other tips for editing:
Editing and proofreading – scroll down to “The proofreading process” (UNC-Chapel Hill Writing Center): http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/editing-and-proofreading/
Grammar (Purdue OWL): https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/5/
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation, with online quizzes: http://www.grammarbook.com/
Guide to Grammar and Writing, with lessons and quizzes (Capital Community College): http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Commas: Quick Rules (Purdue OWL): https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/607/
Commas (Grammarly Handbook): https://www.grammarly.com/handbook/punctuation/comma/
Handout on run-ons and comma splices (St. Louis Community College): http://www.stlcc.edu/Student_Resources/Academic_Resources/Writing_Resources/Grammar_Handouts/comma_splice_runon.pdf
Dangling participles (Oxford Dictionaries blog): http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/09/participles-how-not-to-dangle/
Subject-verb agreement (Purdue OWL): https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/599/01/
Subject-verb agreement (YourDictionary): http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-subject-verb-agreement.html
Practice combining sentences:
https://d39smchmfovhlz.cloudfront.net/3jXgq9HRpuXiYjzXXtNd5ckn1e8WFx1S45cyJIZ90RAqN0W7.pdf
http://www.cengagesites.com/academic/assets/sites/3959/0618957790_ch06.pdf
http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CNP/0261-august08/NP0261Sentence.pdf
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