Fix the Sentence Worksheets

About this resource

A sentence is broken. Can the child say what is wrong with it and fix it? This pack teaches that proofreading habit in four practice formats, easiest to hardest, with a helper page in kid words to start: sort the mistakes, put the words in order, add the missing word, fix a sentence with two or three mistakes.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (31 pages)

• 13 student pages in 6 page types (below), each with a big "My name" line and one short instruction
• 74 practice items, all invented: 20 cards to sort, 18 sentences to put in order, 18 with a word missing, 18 to fix; no sentence repeats across the student pages
• 20 cut-and-glue cards on two pages: ten a page, each page one block that takes 5 straight cuts
• 1 rules page for the teacher (with a blank line for your program's own wording), 4 answer keys generated from the same data as the pages
• 1 tracker (11 rows), 1 class progress grid, 1 team note, 1 home page, 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (17 starters)
• 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
• Start Here, a how-to-read-a-page page, and a back page

THE SIX PAGE TYPES (dots show the level, never color)

1. Fix the Sentence Helper (1 dot) — four cards in kid words (capital letter, word order, missing word, end mark) and one sentence fixed step by step.

2. Sort the Mistakes (1 dot, 2 pages) — cut 10 short broken sentences a page and glue each under the one mistake it has.

3. Word Order (2 dots, 3 pages) — two words are in the wrong place; the child writes the sentence the right way on primary lines.

4. Missing Word (2 dots, 3 pages) — a mark shows where a word is missing; the child picks one of three words and writes it in the box.

5. Fix It (3 dots, 3 pages) — two or three mistakes in one sentence (capital, end mark, word order, missing word); the child writes it the right way.

6. Write Your Own (3 dots, 1 page) — three cues (a pet, a food, today); the child writes a sentence, draws one, and checks it three ways.

Word Order, Missing Word and Fix It come in three sets of six sentences (A, B, C). Every Missing Word item has its own three words and only one of them fits, and the correct one moves between the first, second and third box, so a child cannot work the page by crossing words off.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture, large rounded letters, and writing boxes on primary lines at least 0.58 inch tall. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult. Cutting is limited to Sort the Mistakes: ten pieces on each of two pages, touching edge to edge, each at least 1.1 inch on every side.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the tracker, the class grid, the team note, the home page and the rules-page note box are type-in fields in any PDF reader (159 fields in all). The letters a student writes in the boxes are pencil work. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

First and second grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher working with an older student who still needs to read a sentence back, hear what is wrong with it and fix it. The home page sends the same job to a family; the team note hands off what changed since the last meeting.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Proofreading practice with the record-keeping around it. It is not a probe, a goal bank or a score sheet, not a writing assessment, and not a claim about any student's age or rate of progress. Commas, quotation marks, apostrophes, titles, exclamation sentences, spelling mistakes and run-ons are not practiced; the rules page names each one as left out on purpose.