SHARON’S BLOG Would you like your students to understand how to use proofreading marks? Do they know that they do not have to proofread for everything at once? And did you know that it is easier for students to proofread if they practice on someone else’s mistakes? Explore the posts below, appropriate for 7th –…
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Proofreading is not a happy activity. It takes attention to detail and maybe even some groaning. After all, you feel as if your first draft is enough. You’re done. Finished. Students tell me that writing the first draft and then proofreading it is like writing their paper twice. The Bad News .Here’s…
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Proofreading. What a pain. You finish your essay and think you’re through with it, but, no. Now you have to proofread it. It turns out that writing and proofreading are two separate skills. In fact, they use two different parts of your brain and should be done at different times. To take…
SHARON’S BLOG Proofreading is painful for students. They feel they’re through with the writing process when they write their first draft and then want nothing more to do with that essay. Students tell me that writing the first draft and proofreading it is like writing their paper twice. . However, the skill of proofreading their…
