This simple worksheet will help your students to begin to develop their editing skills as they decode basic sentences and identify where the capital letters belong.
Use as a teacher led, whole class or literacy group activity.
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
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
Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters; recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences
Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops
Construct texts using software including word processing programs
Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge
Demonstrates developing skills and knowledge in grammar, punctuation and vocabulary when responding to and composing texts
Composes simple texts to convey an idea or message
Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
Tracks written text from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and identifies visual and spatial features of print
Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts
Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters and recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences
Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops
Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge
Construct texts using software including word processing programs
Some students may benefit working in a small teacher-led group to have the sentence read out loud for them.