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EDITING SKILLS

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.

Asita & Chizoba

On saturday, Asita went over to Chizobas house to play

basketball. They played a gam of one-on-one. Asita

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.

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Answer Key:

Asita & Chizoba

On Saturday, Asita went over to Chizoba’s house to play

basketball. They played a game of one-on-one. Asita

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.

Skills: capitalization

possessive nouns

spelling

compound words