CALIFORNIA TEST PREP Revising and Editing Practice Workbook Grade 4

Practice and Preparation for the Smarter Balanced ELA Tests!



This workbook will give students extensive practice completing revising and editing tasks. Students will read full-length examples of student writing that contain errors. Each passage is followed by multiple choice questions that require students to improve the passage or to correct an error. This workbook will prepare students for the language and editing tasks on the Smarter Balanced ELA tests, as well as improve performance on the Smarter Balanced writing tasks.

Extensive Revising and Editing Practice
- Provides practice revising to improve writing and editing to correct errors
- Revising tasks cover focus, organization, sentence structure, transitions, word use, strong word choices, and more
- Editing tasks cover grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
- Covers the skills listed in the language section of the Common Core State Standards Provides Ongoing Skill Development and Practice
- 18 convenient practice sets allow for ongoing skill development
- Each practice set contains a full-length example of student writing with errors and opportunities for improvement
- Each set includes both revising and editing tasks
- Format allows for review and feedback after each set
- Develops the skills required for the editing tasks on the Smarter Balanced tests Key Benefits
- Provides extensive experience completing revising and editing tasks
- Identifying errors in context improves language and vocabulary skills
- Develops and improves writing skills
- Helps ensure student writing follows standard writing conventions
- Prepares students for the editing tasks on the Smarter Balanced tests
- Improves performance on the writing tasks on the Smarter Balanced tests