How to Publish

Lesson Plan - Get It!

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When authors publish their writing, not only do they put it in a format that they can easily share with others, but they also review it for mistakes, such as capitalization, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Watch Editing Writing for Kids! {First and Second Grade} by Teaching Without Frills to learn more about editing:

Next, edit the sentence below by writing it correctly in your journal:

"I wil go to the park wit My friends?"

How many mistakes did you find? Let's look at it carefully.

• "Will" is spelled incorrectly, because it only has one "l."
• "With" is spelled incorrectly — it is missing the "h" at the end.
• Should the "m" in "my" be capitalized? No! Of course not! It is not a proper noun (someone's name, or the name of a place), nor is it at the beginning of a sentence.
• Finally, is this sentence a question? It is not! This sentence needs a period, not a question mark (?) at the end.
• So, this sentence has four mistakes. Did you find them all? Great work!

In the next section, you will write a piece and review your work to correct your capitalization, spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes.