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 an assessment for teachers to utilise to assess student learning.
Learning goals
- We are learning to understand the purpose of punctuation in sentences.
- We are learning to edit our texts and make changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation.
- We are learning to understand the purpose of punctuation in different sentence types.
- We are learning to create, re-read and edit short written and multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount an event using capital letters, punctuation and correct spelling.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E1LY06
9
Create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllable words
AC9E1LA10
9
Understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns
ACELY1662
8.4
Re-read student’s own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation
ACELA1449
8.4
Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands
EN1-2A
old
Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers
EN1-3A
old
Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies
EN1-9B
old
Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
EN1-UARL-01
new
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
EN1-HANDW-01
new
Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts
EN1-SPELL-01
new
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
EN1-CWT-01
new
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
EN1-REFLU-01
new
Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors
EN1-PHOKW-01
new
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
EN1-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
EN1-OLC-01
new
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
VCELY197
Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs
VCELY195
Reread student's own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation
VCELY194
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements
VCELA190
Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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