Proof-Reading Practice: Spot and Fix the Errors

Year 4 EnglishWriting4 pages

About this worksheet

This four-page proofreading homework for Year 4 English has 12 questions. Six sentences each hide three errors in capital letters, full stops or the comma after a fronted adverbial. Four more mix a missing comma with a wrong homophone, such as too for to or pray for prey. Pupils then correct a short paragraph about a class trip to the zoo and write two sentences of their own. The answer key shows every correction. It covers the England National Curriculum objectives on fronted adverbials and commas.

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Proof-Reading Practice: Spot and Fix the Errors: Writing - page 1

Proof-Reading Practice: Spot and Fix the Errors: Writing - page 2

Proof-Reading Practice: Spot and Fix the Errors: Writing - page 3

Proof-Reading Practice: Spot and Fix the Errors: Writing - page 4

Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using fronted adverbials”

Question 12, where pupils write two sentences that open with a fronted adverbial.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

“Using commas after fronted adverbials”

Every sentence in questions 1 to 11 needs a comma after its fronted adverbial.

What's inside this worksheet

Section 1: Spot the Errors

Six sentences like 'quietly the cat crept towards the mouse', each with three mistakes to fix.

Section 2: Tricky Homophones

Four sentences with a missing comma and a wrong homophone, including they're for their and threw for through.

Section 3: The Big Edit

A zoo trip paragraph with missing capitals, full stops and commas, plus the wrong spellings sum and grate.

Section 4: Your Turn

Two sentences of the pupil's own that start with a fronted adverbial and use the correct punctuation.

Answer Key

Every correction, with the added commas and full stops shown in bold.

How teachers use it

Homework

It was written as homework, and the answer key makes marking in class quick.

Editing lesson

Project the zoo paragraph and correct it together before pupils edit their own writing.

Spelling link

Use Section 2 alongside homophone spelling work, since it covers too, they're, threw and pray.

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