Powerful Proofreading - Foundation
This is the perfect activity to use when practicing the skills that go with editing a sentence or piece of writing.
Your class will love working alongside you, or in groups to fix these sentences up.
Simply cut out and laminate the letter, punctuation and editing characters. Attach to pegs, paddle pop sticks or make finger puppets with them! Then, print out and cut up the sentences to display on the whiteboard. As a class or in groups, use the editing symbols on the following page, to identify errors in the sentences. Guide students to check if each sentence:
- Uses capital letters where required
- Uses correct sentence punctuation
- Uses accurate spelling
- Makes sense
- Is rewritten neatly with finger spaces when appropriate.
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Learning goals
- 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.
- 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.
Curriculum alignment
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
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
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-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-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts
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
VCELY161
Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops
VCELY160
Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge
VCELY163
Construct texts using software including word processing programs
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.