- Have students work in groups to complete one or all of the activity sheets that support the skills covered in the Lazy Editor article you’ve selected. You might have students complete the activity for a particular grammar skill that you know they struggle with, or you might have them complete all three activity sheets.
- ALTERNATIVE IDEA: If students are already familiar with the concepts covered in the Lazy Editor, save the activity sheets for the end. Do the Lazy Editor first and assign the activity sheets on an as-needed basis for students to brush up on skills in areas where they showed weakness.
![Article](/content/dam/classroom-magazines/scope/issues/2016-17/020117/worst-party-ever-/SCO-020117-LazyEditor_Banner.jpg)
John Corbitt
Worst Party Ever?
This short nonfiction article about birthday celebrations around the world is full of sloppy writing and grammatical errors that need to be fixed.
By Mackenzie Carro
From the February 2017 Issue
Learning Objective: to identify and correct errors involving extraneous information, unnecessary shifts in verb tense, and ambiguous pronouns
Step-by-Step Lesson Plan
Close Reading, Critical Thinking, Skill Building
1. REVIEWING GRAMMAR AND WRITING CONCEPTS
2. PREPARING TO READ
3. READING THE LAZY EDITOR
4. DOING THE ACTIVITY
5. ASSESSING AND REINFORCING
Text-to-Speech