Editing Writing for Kids! |First and Second Grade|
3 min1st2ndReading & Writing (ELA)
Summary
An editing mini-lesson made for first and second graders: checking for capital letters at the start of sentences, end punctuation, and spaces between words.
Viewer safety
All ages
Our rating is a quick teacher-to-teacher guide — preview before showing.
Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Young writers edit for capitals, end marks, and spaces between words.
- Where does a capital letter go in a sentence?
- What marks can end a sentence?
- Why do we put spaces between words?
Quick work-a-long
Words to know: capital, end mark, spaces
- Check three sentences for a capital and an end mark.
- Fix a sentence that is missing spaces between words.