Proofreading Pencils - Year 2
Use these quick and fun pencils as warm up activities, fast finishers or rotational activities in literacy groups. Students can either edit the sentences by writing on the pencil or by rewriting the sentence into their workbooks.
Students will read each sentence and edit to correct the following errors:
- Use of capital letters
- Use of correct sentence punctuation
- Use of accurate spelling
- Sentence meaning
- Vocabulary choices
- Correct finger spacing
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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.
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
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.
Differentiation
Extensions
The pencils progressively get more difficult. The editing key provides less scaffolding as the pencils progress.
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