U.S. C.O.P.P.S. Five Finger Editing/Conventions

Call the U.S. C.O.P.P.S. Five Finger EditingTeach your students to be their own grammar police!The next time your students need a guide on how to edit their essays, you can use this US COPPS Five Finger Editing Guide/Checklist.U- Usage for subject verb agreement (determining when a sentence is in past, present, or future tense or when the subjects and/or predicates are singular or plural) C- Is for Capitalization (when to use upper and lower case letters) O- is for Off-Limits Words (editing to substitute better word choices for those that are either too low or too high for the student to use on the essay) P- is for Penmanship (Checking that all the letters are written neatly and are easily legible in print or cursive). P- is for Punctuation (Looking for problems like periods, exclamations, question marks, quotations, apostrophes, contractions and commas). S- is for Spelling (reminding the student to read orally and silently to take pictures of the order of the letters visually and vi