To help students become better editors, consider using Jeff Anderson's idea--Invitation to Edit--from Everyday Editing.
Begin by looking at the first sentence, the mentor text, with your student. What does she notice about it? She can comment on anything--content, diction, syntax, punctuation, anything.
Once she has studied it and made her observations, cover it and show her the subsequent sentences, one by one, allowing her to point out what is different (i.e. incorrect) about each one.
Begin by looking at the first sentence, the mentor text, with your student. What does she notice about it? She can comment on anything--content, diction, syntax, punctuation, anything.
Once she has studied it and made her observations, cover it and show her the subsequent sentences, one by one, allowing her to point out what is different (i.e. incorrect) about each one.
"In the city of Boston, on a cobblestoned street, a new hat shop was opening for business." The Hatmaker's Sign by Candace Fleming
In the City of Boston, on a cobblestoned street, a new hat shop was opening for business.
In the city of Boston on a cobblestoned street, a new hat shop was opening for business.
In the city of boston, on a cobblestoned street, a new hat shop was opening for business.
In the city of Boston, on a cobblestoned street, a knew hat shop was opening for business.
In the city of Boston, on a cobblestoned street, a new hat shop was opening for buisness.
In the City of Boston, on a cobblestoned street, a new hat shop was opening for business.
In the city of Boston on a cobblestoned street, a new hat shop was opening for business.
In the city of boston, on a cobblestoned street, a new hat shop was opening for business.
In the city of Boston, on a cobblestoned street, a knew hat shop was opening for business.
In the city of Boston, on a cobblestoned street, a new hat shop was opening for buisness.
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