Editing Skills

1. EDITING SKILLS<br />Directions: Read the passage below. How many mistakes can you find? Use the proofreading marks to show the mistakes. Then rewrite the passage with the corrected mistakes.<br />Asita & Chizoba<br />On saturday, Asita went over to Chizobas house to play<br />basketball. They played a gam of one-on-one. Asita<br />made six baskets, bute chizoba made eight Chizoba was the winner. After the game, both boys whent in side to have some snack’s and play Mancala.<br />Asita & Chizoba<br />____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br />Answer Key:<br />Asita & Chizoba<br />On Saturday, Asita went over to Chizoba’s house to play<br />basketball. They played a game of one-on-one. Asita<br />made six baskets, but Chizoba made eight. Chizoba was the winner. After the game, both boys went inside to have some snacks and play Mancala.<br />Skills:<br /> capitalization<br /> possessive nouns<br /> spelling<br /> compound words<br />