Effective Literacy Website: Every-Day Edits

     Every-Day Edits (https://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/edit.shtml) is a free resource for K-12 students that is found on the EducationWorld.com website. Every-Day edits is a quick way for students to practice their revising skills on a small scale. This websites provides paragraphs for students to edit for each day of the school year!

By incorporating Every-Day edits into a typical class session, students are able to build cultural literacy. The paragraphs on Every-Day Edits are broken down by months, and they provide educational background information about the month’s events. For example, in the January list, a paragraph on Martin Luther King Jr. can be found, and on the September list, a paragraph on the September 11 Monuments can be selected. In addition to monthly happenings, other paragraphs include famous authors, inventions, and historical figures.

This resource is especially useful because it requires students to slow down and focus. During peer-review,  students may overlook common spelling and grammatical errors, but exercises like Every-Day edits gets them in the habit of thoroughly checking their work and identifying and correcting common mistakes.

Every-Day Edits comes equipped with an uncorrected paragraph for students to revise, and an answer key for teachers. Also available for printing are PDFs of each paragraph that students can use to mark their revisions.