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Fundraiser Email: Check Before Sending

Edit a student fundraiser email, recognize departures from standard English, and practice strategies for checking writing and speech.

Grade 6ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.6.1.e

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 14 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 6
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students identify departures from standard English in fundraiser emails and spoken planning notes.
  • Students revise nonstandard language while preserving the writer's intended meaning.
  • Students use rereading, sentence checks, and reference tools to evaluate language choices.

How to use

Read the draft email, then complete the editing and strategy tasks. Have students apply one checking strategy to an email or spoken message of their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.6.1.e

Notice where their own and others' writing and speaking stray from standard English, and use strategies to fix it.

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Fundraiser Email: Check Before Sending

Notice language problems and choose strategies to repair them.

Review the Draft

This email between students contains intentional language errors. For the version shared with school staff, use standard English without changing the plan.

Subject: Puzzle Exchange Fundraiser

1Hi Zadie, Thanks for offering to organize the puzzle exchange with me. Students could donate complete puzzles, and visitors could buy them at our Friday fundraiser. The money would help replace the worn cushions in the student meeting room. I want the event to feel welcoming, even for someone who has never joined one of our projects.

2The boxes near the office needs clear labels. We should separate puzzles by the number of pieces so visitors can find a suitable challenge. Your suggestion about checking each donated puzzle makes sense. I seen an empty box mixed in with the donations yesterday. A photo of the finished puzzle would also help us match loose pieces to their boxes.

3I don't have no volunteers for the closing shift yet. Could you ask the afternoon study group whether anyone can stay? We need people to count the remaining puzzles and wipe the tables. I'm making a checklist so nobody has to guess what to do. We should also ask an adult to supervise the money table.

4Before I send the plan to our adviser, I want to check the language as carefully as the schedule. I have saved a separate copy of this draft. Reading on a screen is different from speaking to a friend. I'll read each sentence aloud and pause wherever the words sound awkward. Then I'll check any uncertain forms in our class grammar guide.

5Please add your suggestions before Thursday afternoon. You can mark a sentence without rewriting the whole message, but tell me why you recommend a change. I want to understand the correction so I can check my next email myself. After we agree on the wording, I'll send the revised plan to our adviser. Thanks, Nalin

1.
Which strategy does Nalin plan to use first to notice possible language problems?
  • A. Ask Zadie to rewrite the email before reviewing it.
  • B. Compare the email's schedule with the study group's schedule.
  • C. Listen to the sentences while reading the draft aloud.
  • D. Replace the draft with a shorter message to the adviser.
2.
Underline the sentence from paragraph 4 that directly supports your answer to question 1.

I have saved a separate copy of this draft.Reading on a screen is different from speaking to a friend.I'll read each sentence aloud and pause wherever the words sound awkward.Then I'll check any uncertain forms in our class grammar guide.

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