Zombie Outbreak! Editing Passages
By Ready Steady Games
AmGen Labs has been compromised. Three audio transcripts were recovered from the security office, but the grammar is a mess, the spelling is failing, and the punctuation is missing completely. These corrupted files need to be cleaned before they can be entered into the permanent case file. Your students must step in as elite proofreaders, repairing the evidence and uncovering clues about what happened inside AmGen Labs. In this Zombie Editing Challenge for Grades 4–6, students work through differentiated editing passages while practicing grammar review, proofreading, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, verb tenses, and editing skills. Every transcript reveals a little more about the outbreak—right up to the chilling final line that changes everything. Every student in the room investigates the same outbreak. Each one works at the right level for them. The Three Transcript Levels: Transcript 1: Foundation Level Students repair a corrupted audio log recorded during the initial outbreak, correcting capitalization, sentence boundaries, commas in a list, and apostrophes. The transcript describes alarms screaming and something scratching at the doors of Sector 7. Transcript 2: Intermediate Level Students correct subject-verb agreement errors, irregular verbs, and verb tense inconsistencies in a log describing the changing behaviour of the specimens. The escalating threat is clear in every corrected sentence. Transcript 3: Advanced Level Students add commas an
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