Proofreading Passages - Year 3
These proofreading passages can be displayed as a whole class activity, printed for literacy groups or used as fast finishers. For convenience, suggested answers have been included.
Students will read each passage and edit to correct the following errors:
- Use of capital letters
- Use of correct punctuation
- Use of accurate spelling
- Sentence meaning
- Vocabulary choices
- Legibility of work
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Learning goals
- We are learning to plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using text structures and language features appropriate to the audience and purpose.
- We are learning to re-read and edit texts for appropriate meaning, structure, grammatical choices and punctuation.
- We are learning to create and edit imaginative texts by using or adapting language features, characters, settings and plot structures, e.g. changing the setting, revising an ending.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E3LY06
9
Plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive written and multimodal texts, using visual features, appropriate form and layout, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, mostly correct tense, topic-specific vocabulary and correct spelling of most high-frequency and phonetically regular words
AC9E3LE05
9
Create and edit imaginative texts, using or adapting language features, characters, settings, plot structures and ideas encountered in literary texts
ACELY1683
8.4
Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
EN2-2A
old
Plans, composes and reviews a range of texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and language
EN2-3A
old
Uses effective handwriting and publishes texts using digital technologies
EN2-OLC-01
new
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
EN2-VOCAB-01
new
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
EN2-CWT-01
new
Plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
EN2-CWT-02
new
Plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
EN2-CWT-03
new
Plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience
EN2-SPELL-01
new
Selects, applies and describes appropriate phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts
EN2-HANDW-02
new
Uses digital technologies to create texts
EN2-UARL-01
new
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
VCELY266
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose
VCELY267
Reread and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation
VCELY269
Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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