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Grade 4

by Linda Armstrong

Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company, Inc. Greensboro, North Carolina

DedicationFor my husband, Alden, with thanks for his patience, and for Jennifer, with appreciation for her patience and support.

Credits

Editor: Carrie Fox

Layout Design: Lori Jackson

Cover Design: Lori Jackson

Cover Photo: © WizData, Inc.

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Table of ContentsIntroduction ....................................................................................................................................................... 5

CapitalizationProper Nouns: Names of People and Pets ...................................................................................................... 6 Proper Nouns: Family Names and Official Titles ............................................................................................ 8Proper Adjectives: Nationality ....................................................................................................................... 10Proper Nouns: Names of Planets and Sports Teams. .................................................................................. 12Proper Nouns: Historical Periods, Events, and Empires .............................................................................. 14Mixed Review ................................................................................................................................................... 16Proper Nouns: Streets and Specific Places in the United States ................................................................ 18 Proper Nouns: U.S. Cities and States ............................................................................................................ 20Mixed Review ................................................................................................................................................... 22 Proper Nouns: Streets and Specific Places in Canada ................................................................................. 24Proper Nouns: Canadian Cities and Provinces ............................................................................................. 26Mixed Review ................................................................................................................................................... 28 Proper Nouns: Names of Magazines and Newspapers ...............................................................................30Proper Nouns: Names of Organizations, Businesses, and International Unions ....................................... 32Proper Nouns: Names of Works of Art and Musical Compositions ...........................................................34Mixed Review ................................................................................................................................................... 36First Word in a Direct Quotation ............................................................................................................................. 38Cumulative Review ..........................................................................................................................................40

PunctuationPeriods: Sentence Endings ............................................................................................................................. 42Periods: Initials .................................................................................................................................................44Periods: Abbreviations ....................................................................................................................................46Semicolons: Joining Independent Clauses ...................................................................................................48Colons and Hyphens: Times, Lists, and Fractions ........................................................................................ 50Mixed Review ................................................................................................................................................... 52Commas: U.S. Cities and States & Canadian Cities and Provinces ............................................................54Commas: Greetings and Closings in Friendly Letters..................................................................................56Commas: Items in a Series and Consecutive Adjectives ............................................................................. 58Commas: Coordinating Conjunctions with Independent Clauses .............................................................60Commas: Introductory and Parenthetical Words and Phrases ................................................................... 62Mixed Review ...................................................................................................................................................66 Apostrophes: Contractions ............................................................................................................................ 68Apostrophes: Singular Possessives ................................................................................................................ 72Apostrophes: Plural Possessives .................................................................................................................... 74Mixed Review ................................................................................................................................................... 76 Quotation Marks: Dialogue ............................................................................................................................ 78Quotation Marks and Commas: Dialogue ....................................................................................................80Quotation Marks and Ending Punctuation Marks: Dialogue ...................................................................... 82Quotation Marks: Song, Story, and Poem Titles, Song Lyrics, and Quoted Material ...............................84Quotation Marks and Underlines: Titles of Articles, Chapters, and Works of Art .................................... 86Underlines: Book and Movie Titles ................................................................................................................88Parentheses: Parenthetical Phrases and Definitions ....................................................................................90 Mixed Review ................................................................................................................................................... 92 Cumulative Review .......................................................................................................................................... 94

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Table of ContentsGrammar and Usage

Pronoun/Noun Agreement ............................................................................................................................. 96Subject/Verb Agreement ............................................................................................................................... 98Regular Plurals ............................................................................................................................................... 100Irregular Plurals .............................................................................................................................................. 102Comparative and Superlative Adjectives .................................................................................................... 104Mixed Review ................................................................................................................................................. 106Prepositions ................................................................................................................................................... 108Demonstrative Pronouns ...............................................................................................................................110Object Pronouns ............................................................................................................................................112Conjunctions ...................................................................................................................................................114Mixed Review ..................................................................................................................................................116 Homophones ..................................................................................................................................................118Adverbs .......................................................................................................................................................... 120Irregular Verbs: to Be .................................................................................................................................... 122Irregular Verbs: to Lay/to Lie......................................................................................................................... 124Mixed Review ................................................................................................................................................. 126 Cumulative Review ........................................................................................................................................ 128

SpellingCompound Words ......................................................................................................................................... 130Commonly Misspelled Words ...................................................................................................................... 132Mixed Review ................................................................................................................................................. 134Confusing Spelling Patterns ......................................................................................................................... 136Words with Silent Letters .............................................................................................................................. 138Words with Prefixes ....................................................................................................................................... 140Words with Suffixes ....................................................................................................................................... 144Mixed Review ................................................................................................................................................. 152 Cumulative Review ........................................................................................................................................ 154

Complete SentencesExtra or Missing Words ................................................................................................................................. 156 Transposed Words ........................................................................................................................................ 160Cumulative Review ........................................................................................................................................ 164

Putting It All TogetherFinal Review ................................................................................................................................................... 166End of Book Test ........................................................................................................................................... 186

AppendixProofreader’s Marks Chart ............................................................................................................................ 188Editing Checklist ............................................................................................................................................ 189Grammar Glossary ......................................................................................................................................... 190


Daily EditingIntroduction

Daily Editing provides teachers with an effective structure for reinforcing and assessing students’ editing and proofreading skills using standard writing conventions. Students need daily practice with capitalization, punctuation, grammar, spelling, and sentence structure to ensure proficiency. This book fosters the development of these conventions and editing skills through frequent, focused practice.

Daily Editing includes 180 grade-appropriate fiction and nonfiction passages (including journal entries, e-mails, and letters) that provide material for students’ practice. Each basic practice page focuses on one or more proofreading marks within the context of appropriate conventions. Reviews provide additional practice of the introduced skills in a sequential, cumulative manner.

This resource contains:

• A detailed table of contents to help teachers identify targeted writing conventions

• Student pages with error overviews to guide students in editing

• Answer key pages with all errors corrected using appropriate proofreading marks

• A Proofreader’s Marks Chart to teach and reinforce standard proofreading marks

• An Editing Checklist that highlights basic rules for writing and editing

• A Grammar Glossary for students and teachers to use as a reference

How to Use This BookDaily Editing can be used in a variety of ways depending on instructional goals and students’ needs. Determine the approach that is most effective for your students.

1. Use each passage as a directed lesson for the whole class.

Conduct a mini-lesson on a targeted convention and the appropriate proofreading mark. Then, display an overhead transparency of the chosen passage. Read the passage aloud and note the number of errors cited on the answer key page. Reread the passage, pausing between the sentences. Correct the errors as a class using the appropriate marks.

2. Use each passage as an independent lesson for small groups or pairs of students.

Before beginning, familiarize students with a targeted convention and the appropriate proofreading mark. Then, give each group or pair a copy of the chosen passage. Direct students in each group or pair to work together to identify the errors and correct them using the appropriate proofreading marks. When each group or pair is finished, display an overhead transparency of the passage and identify the errors as a class. (If desired, invite students to identify each error and to determine the associated convention.)

3. Use each passage as independent practice for individual students.

Give each student a copy of the chosen passage. Direct students to read the passage, identify the errors, and use the appropriate proofreading marks to correct them. When students are finished, display an overhead transparency of the passage and identify the errors as a class.


The people on our block love pets. Our family has two cats. Their names are dickens

and dinah. My neighbor beth has a puppy. His name is max. My friend dustin has a

turtle. He does not know whether it is a male or a female. Its name is slowpoke. The

taylors had so many pets that they moved to a farm last summer. They had a duck

named webb, a pig named curly, and a rabbit named puff. I visited them during winter

break. They just adopted an old horse named sundance and a cow named blossom.

Chase, dion, byron, andres, and I took a survey about dog and cat names. Clarissa,

erin, anna, and marisa helped us. We found out that max, jake, maggie, rocky, and

sadie are the most popular dog names at our school. The most popular cat names are

daisy, abby, bitsy, buttons, and fluffy. I did not write my pet’s name on the survey form.

Instead of a dog or a cat, I have a turtle named brahms.

ERRORS: MAKE UPPERCASE: 17

Neighborhood Pets1


Popular Pet Names2

c a p i t a l i z a t i o n


Name: ____________________________________ Date: ___________________

Name: ____________________________________ Date: ___________________

Neighborhood Pets

LOOK FOR: NAMES OF PEOPLE AND PETS

Popular Pet Names

LOOK FOR: NAMES OF PEOPLE AND PETS

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2


The people on our block love pets. Our family has two cats. Their names are dickens

and dinah. My neighbor beth has a puppy. His name is max. My friend dustin has a

turtle. He does not know whether it is a male or a female. Its name is slowpoke. The

taylors had so many pets that they moved to a farm last summer. They had a duck

named webb, a pig named curly, and a rabbit named puff. I visited them during winter

break. They just adopted an old horse named sundance and a cow named blossom.

Chase, dion, byron, andres, and I took a survey about dog and cat names. Clarissa,

erin, anna, and marisa helped us. We found out that max, jake, maggie, rocky, and

sadie are the most popular dog names at our school. The most popular cat names are

daisy, abby, bitsy, buttons, and fluffy. I did not write my pet’s name on the survey form.

Instead of a dog or a cat, I have a turtle named brahms.


Our town will be 100 years old next week. My Mother is planning the celebration.

She is the President of the local historical society. At the program, mom will introduce

mayor Clemens and governor Laurence Taylor. After the high school marching band

plays, reverend Collins will tell everyone about captain Arland Marshall and lieutenant

Harold Thomas, jr. They built the first store in town. Then, dr. Allen Carson will tell about

his Grandfather, the first Doctor. My Sister, my Brother, my Dad, and I are all looking

forward to the big day.

Our school is raising money for flood victims in Asia. Our teacher mrs. Taylor is in

charge of the fund-raiser. She invited rev. Martin Kennedy to speak to us. He is Jason

Kennedy’s Uncle. Jason is a boy in our class. Rev. Kennedy showed us pictures. Then,

he read a message from mayor Sanchez. It said that governor Thomas was asking

everyone to help. I asked my Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins for money. They gave what

they could. My Grandparents also contributed. Mom and dad donated, too. So far,

mr. Wright’s class has raised the most money. Our class has raised more than

ms. Owen’s and mrs. Jackson’s classes.

ERRORS: MAKE UPPERCASE: 8; MAKE LOWERCASE: 5

Centennial Celebration3

ERRORS: MAKE UPPERCASE: 8; MAKE LOWERCASE: 7

Flood Relief Fund-Raiser4



Name: ____________________________________ Date: ___________________

Name: ____________________________________ Date: ___________________

Centennial Celebration

LOOK FOR: FAMILY NAMES AND OFFICIAL TITLES

Flood Relief Fund-Raiser

LOOK FOR: FAMILY NAMES AND OFFICIAL TITLES

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4


Our town will be 100 years old next week. My Mother is planning the celebration.

She is the President of the local historical society. At the program, mom will introduce

mayor Clemens and governor Laurence Taylor. After the high school marching band

plays, reverend Collins will tell everyone about captain Arland Marshall and lieutenant

Harold Thomas, jr. They built the first store in town. Then, dr. Allen Carson will tell about

his Grandfather, the first Doctor. My Sister, my Brother, my Dad, and I are all looking

forward to the big day.

Our school is raising money for flood victims in Asia. Our teacher mrs. Taylor is in

charge of the fund-raiser. She invited rev. Martin Kennedy to speak to us. He is Jason

Kennedy’s Uncle. Jason is a boy in our class. Rev. Kennedy showed us pictures. Then,

he read a message from mayor Sanchez. It said that governor Thomas was asking

everyone to help. I asked my Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins for money. They gave what

they could. My Grandparents also contributed. Mom and dad donated, too. So far,

mr. Wright’s class has raised the most money. Our class has raised more than

ms. Owen’s and mrs. Jackson’s classes.

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Our town’s travel club will host its annual Place Name Food Festival on May 1. For

breakfast, they will serve canadian bacon, belgian waffles, french toast, brazilian

coffee, darjeeling tea, and spanish omelets. For lunch, people will help themselves

to delicious snacks. They may choose asian pears, brazil nuts, danish blue cheese, or

devonshire cheese. Dinner will feature new york steaks and boston baked beans. The

dessert will be german chocolate cake.

Mom helped my sister buy some things for her new apartment. They chose egyptian

cotton sheets, turkish towels, a french provincial chest, and a swedish lamp for the

bedroom. They bought two danish chairs, a dutch table, a swiss clock, a japanese

screen, an english teapot, some chinese plates, a venetian glass vase, and an irish

lace tablecloth for the dining room. Finally, they selected a mexican fountain and a

wooden german bench for the patio.


Foods from around the Globe5


Worldly Decorations6


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Name: ____________________________________ Date: ___________________

Name: ____________________________________ Date: ___________________

Foods from around the Globe

LOOK FOR: NATIONALITIES

Wordly Decorations

LOOK FOR: NATIONALITIES

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6


Our town’s travel club will host its annual Place Name Food Festival on May 1. For

breakfast, they will serve canadian bacon, belgian waffles, french toast, brazilian

coffee, darjeeling tea, and spanish omelets. For lunch, people will help themselves

to delicious snacks. They may choose asian pears, brazil nuts, danish blue cheese, or

devonshire cheese. Dinner will feature new york steaks and boston baked beans. The

dessert will be german chocolate cake.

Mom helped my sister buy some things for her new apartment. They chose egyptian

cotton sheets, turkish towels, a french provincial chest, and a swedish lamp for the

bedroom. They bought two danish chairs, a dutch table, a swiss clock, a japanese

screen, an english teapot, some chinese plates, a venetian glass vase, and an irish

lace tablecloth for the dining room. Finally, they selected a mexican fountain and a

wooden german bench for the patio.

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