When writing, students should be provided with guidance and support. This will help students make their writing get better and better. As the student ages, his or her writing will become more structured and detailed. Also, the student must learn to focus and narrow their topic as well as learn to revise and edit their rough drafts to make them into a final draft.

Grade 2 English Language - Writing Topics Revising and Editing

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10 Questions

1. Read the topic.
Topic: I live in the best neighborhood.

My neighborhood is close to the school.School is fun because my teachers are nice.There are many sidewalks near my house.Kids can swim in the pool that is just down the street.

2. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
What needs revising in the following sentence?
My friends and I did our homework by myself.

Friends should be freends.Myself should be ourselves.Did should be dide.Homework should be homewerk.

3. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
Monkeys like to clime trees with their long arms.

Trees should be treese.Arms should be armes.Clime should be climb.Monkeys should be monkees.

4. Read the topic.
Topic: I like to use glue when I do crafts.

Tape is better than glue because it does not make a mess.It makes glitter stick to the paper.It makes fur and buttons stay on a piece of paper.There is plenty of glue to use at school.

5. Read the topic.
Which sentence does NOT support the topic?
Topic: Fish are animals that live in the ocean.

Fish must swim in the ocean and seas.Fish may get eaten by sharks.People eat fish and chips for lunch.Fish have gills to breathe under the water.

6. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
We leaf the store after we bought our food.

Bought should be bot.Food should be fude.Store should be stoor.Leaf should be leave.

7. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
What needs to be corrected in the following sentence?
The two foots of an elephant stomped on the ground.

Two should be too.Stomped should be stompt.Elephant should be elefant.Foots should be feet.

8. Read the topic.
Topic: Saturday is my favorite day of the week.

My mom lets me watch television on Saturday.Saturday is hard to spell.There is no school on Saturday.I get to sleep late on Saturday.

9. You finish writing your story. You read it again.
The policeman wore a bage on his shirt.

Shirt should be shert.His should be himself.Bage should be badge.Policeman should be policemann.

10. Read the topic.
Topic: The best toy would be a robot. It would clean my room.

There would never be any dirt in my room.I would never have to clean my room.My mom would never yell at me to put my toys away.Kites would be a good toy because they fly in the air.