Proofreading and Editing (A Grammar Activity for ESL Students ) | Try out This Grammar Review Idea

One of the best ones that focus on reading and writing skills is proofreading and editing. It’s hard for our students if we lead right into the main lesson without giving them a chance to warm up their brains, and start thinking, talking, reading and writing in English. It’s also the perfect opportunity to do some review of the things I’ve taught in previous classes. ------------------- • Sentence Correction Activity for ESL Students: https://youtu.be/zDxIX_0ULVI • 3 Fun Grammar Activities ESL by: @Just Teach (by Little Mary) https://youtu.be/G1UGXC7Efco ------------------- • Check out my blog if you want to find more information about Proofreading and editing https://www.eslactivity.org/proof-reading-editing-esl-warm-up/ Check out my 39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Grammar Activities and Games book: https://amzn.to/3Qc33Ty -------------------- https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #esl #teachingenglishwithjackie #proofreading ------------------------------------------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------------------------------------- Transcript for ESL proofreading and editing: One of the most important, but overlooked skills is proofreading and editing. To be honest, if you are a business person or you're a teacher, you have any kind of job you probably have to write things. And if you can't proofread and edit your own work, nobody will really take you seriously. If you write a business email that's full of mistakes, who's going to take you seriously. Or, if you're a teacher and you're writing a bunch of report cards and there are a bunch of mistakes in them, the parents are going to wonder who is actually teaching my kids. That's why I love to teach my ESL or EFL students how to proofread and edit. I know it's a little bit old school. It's a little bit boring. However, it is a very important skill. So the best way to do it is to have a little checklist, and this will, of course, depend on the level of the students. But some very basic things to add on there are punctuation including like periods, commas, question marks, capital letters, and subject-verb agreement like they-are he-is. Things like that. Of course, spelling, and overused words like great, awesome, and good. There are so many better adjectives and descriptive words that you can use to replace that. So those are the most basic ones and then it can get into way more complicated things as well, depending on the level. Okay, so that's it. Don't overlook proofreading and editing with your students, even if it's a little bit boring. Push through and do it with them because it actually is a very important skill. If you need some more ideas for teaching English, please be sure to check out my book 39 No-Prep, Low-Prep ESL Grammar Activities and please hit like, subscribe, and let me know if you teach proofreading and editing to your English Learners. Leave a comment below. Okay, until next time, bye everybody. Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:10 Why is it important? 0:49 Use a checklist 1:25 Conclusion Tags: Grammar Activity, grammar activity for esl, esl grammar activity, proofreading warmup, editing warmups, proofreading and editing,esl proofreading,editing worksheet, daily warm up answer key,daily editing practice,2nd grade editing worksheets, editing paragraph exercises with answers,