English Unit: Excellent Editing
This unit plan is a great way to introduce students to basic editing skills. The unit contains a presentation that walks students through the strategies, a student reference card, accompanying worksheets and activities. At the completion of the unit, there is a quiz and assessment for teachers to utilise to assess student learning.
Learning goals
- We are learning to edit texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops, for ourselves and others.
- We are learning to recognise punctuation in written text, such as capital letters used for names and for beginning a sentence and punctuation marks, such as full stops, signal the end.
- We are learning to create and edit short written texts to record and report ideas and events using capital letters, punctuation and correct spelling of CVC words.
Curriculum alignment
AC9EFLA09
9
Identify punctuation as a feature of written text different from letters; recognise that capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters also signal the beginning of sentences while punctuation marks signal the end
AC9EFLY06
9
Create and participate in shared editing of short written texts to record and report ideas and events using some learnt vocabulary, basic sentence boundary punctuation and spelling some consonant–vowel–consonant words correctly
ACELY1652
8.4
Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops
ENe-2A
old
Composes simple texts to convey an idea or message
ENe-3A
old
Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
ENE-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts
ENE-CWT-01
new
Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences
ENE-SPELL-01
new
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts
ENE-HANDW-01
new
Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts
ENE-UARL-01
new
Understands and responds to literature read to them
VCELY160
Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge
VCELY161
Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops
VCELY163
Construct texts using software including word processing programs
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.