Book excerpt: Hours of Guided Practice in the Elements of Good Writing; Perfect Preparation for Common Core State Standards Language Arts Testing!Do you need a resource to give your students extensive practice in the often difficult and elusive skills of editing and revising? These workbooks may be just what you're looking for. Students are required to read passages embedded with errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization. They are then asked multiple-choice questions designed to help them recognize and correct these mistakes. These exercises will help students to better understand the essential skills of finding and correcting editorial problems and revising writing appropriately. Students will soon be on their way to mastering these two very important steps in the writing process.• Hours of practice on skills leading to editing and revising mastery.• High-interest passages embedded with the most common errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization. • Multiple-choice questions after each passage help students find, recognize and correct mistakes. Queue's Editing and Revising workbooks fit perfectly with the new Language Arts Core curriculum, specifically: K–4 and 5–8 Language Arts Benchmark II-B: Apply grammatical and language conventions to communicate.Grade 8 Performance Standards:1. Use correct and varied sentence types and sentence openings.7. Revise writing for word choice, appropriate organization, consistent point of view, and transitions between paragraphs, passages and ideas.Perfect for homeschooling!