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FREE Editing Checklist for Young Writers

By thisreadingmama 6 Comments

In honor of National Coffee Day this weekend {US readers}, I’m posting a coffee-themed FREEBIE that’s available to ALL my readers!

It’s an editing checklist you can use with your K-2 writers called C.U.P.S.

FREE Editing Checklist for Young Writers | This Reading Mama

*The free download link can be found at the END of this post.

C.U.P.S. Editing Checklist

The C.U.P.S. checklist includes these four items:

  1. Capital letters– Did I put capital letters where they belong?
  2. Understanding– If I read this to someone, will they understand it?
  3. Punctuation– Did I put punctuation where it belongs?
  4. Spelling– Did I spell all my words correctly?

Also included in the printable are these “sugar packs” to pass out to students when they need to re-check a particular item. For example, if a child says he is “done” with his writing, yet you notice lots of inappropriate uses of capital letters, hand him a C “sugar pack” as a reminder that he needs to edit more carefully for capital letters.

 

See C.U.P.S. in ACTION!

Simple Writing Lesson 9-TRM

Visit our post where we use C.U.P.S in action to edit!

 

Enjoy teaching!
~Becky

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Filed Under: Grammar and Mechanics, Writing

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Comments

  1. Natalie F says

    September 29, 2013 at 11:23 pm

    This is an adorable printable! I am going to put it up on our board 🙂 Thanks for sharing it.

    Reply
  2. Jennifer Harper says

    November 21, 2014 at 12:39 pm

    I can’t get the CUPS poster to download. What am I doing wrong? jennifer.harper@trsu.org

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      November 21, 2014 at 1:26 pm

      Did you click “HERE” at the bottom of the post or are you clicking on the image?

      Reply
  3. Janet says

    March 24, 2015 at 1:56 pm

    Your links to print don’t work anymore.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      March 24, 2015 at 2:39 pm

      The link worked fine for me. Are you clicking on the “Download HERE” part at the bottom of the post?

      Reply

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Hi! I’m Becky, a homeschooling mama with 4 blessings who keep me on my toes {and knees}. Before homeschooling, I was a classroom teacher (M.Ed.) and reading tutor. Read more about me here.

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