A great whole class or group work activity for modelling basic editing and proofreading routines. Following the ‘5 Star Writing’ checklist students will improve each sentence by looking at the following:
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
Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops
Composes simple texts to convey an idea or message
Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
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
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
While fast finishers are colouring the picture, work with those students struggling to model explicitly.
Students can write their own sentence about the picture.