Powerful Proofreading - Year 2
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 letters, 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 and uses the most appropriate vocabulary
- Is rewritten neatly with finger spaces when appropriate
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Learning goals
- We are learning to create short imaginative, informative and persuasive multimodal texts using text structures, language and grammatical features appropriate to the audience and purpose.
- We are learning to re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence punctuation and text structure.
- We are learning to identify the different text structures and language features of different types of texts, e.g. narratives, recounts, information reports, simple procedures, expression of opinion and responses to texts.
- We are learning to innovate on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot and by adding prepositional phrases to improve descriptions.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E2LY06
9
Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words
AC9E2LA03
9
Identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes
AC9E2LE05
9
Create and edit literary texts by adapting structures and language features of familiar literary texts through drawing, writing, performance and digital tools
ACELY1672
8.4
Re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure
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-VOCAB-01
new
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
EN1-SPELL-01
new
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
EN1-PHOKW-01
new
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
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-HANDW-01
new
Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating 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
VCELY230
Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose
VCELY231
Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure
VCELY233
Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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