Rewriting the Week

This worksheet supports students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 as they practice revising an extended paragraph with errors in the present perfect continuous tense. Learners focus on careful reading, grammar accuracy, tense consistency, sentence clarity, and paragraph coherence as they rewrite a passage to correctly express ongoing actions over time.

Skills Reinforced

• Present Perfect Continuous Accuracy (Grades 4-6)
  Students identify and correct incorrect uses of have/has been + verb-ing structures.
• Editing and Revising Extended Text
  Learners practice revising a full paragraph rather than isolated sentences.
• Grammar Error Identification
  The activity strengthens students’ ability to spot issues with auxiliaries, verb endings, and tense consistency.
• Rewriting for Coherence and Clarity
  Students produce a corrected version that reads smoothly and clearly from start to finish.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource
  Designed by educators to target common tense errors found in student writing.
• Authentic Editing Task
  Mirrors real-world proofreading and revision expectations.
• Flexible Classroom Use
  Suitable for grammar lessons, independent work, homework, intervention, or assessment.
• Builds Writing Confidence
  Helps students see how accurate grammar improves overall readability.

This printable grammar worksheet helps students strengthen their proofreading and revision skills while mastering the present perfect continuous tense. By correcting an entire passage, learners gain a deeper understanding of how ongoing actions must be expressed consistently across longer texts. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this no-prep resource supports clear writing, grammatical accuracy, and confident editing skills.

This worksheet is part of our present perfect continuous tense worksheets collection.