Editing Stations – Professional Development Series

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:

http://rpdp.net/files/ccss/ELA/ELA_11-12_Curr_Res/Language%2011-12/Grammar%20and%20Mechanics/Sentence%20Combining%201.pdf

https://d39smchmfovhlz.cloudfront.net/3jXgq9HRpuXiYjzXXtNd5ckn1e8WFx1S45cyJIZ90RAqN0W7.pdf