Learning to Edit and Improve Writing Skills
Today's lesson focuses on editing and correcting mistakes in writing, emphasizing the importance of identifying errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Students are encouraged to review their own work, make necessary edits, and enhance their writing by using synonyms and improving word choice. Tasks include revisiting and refining previous writing, identifying mistakes, and practicing spelling and punctuation. A passage correction exercise is provided to reinforce editing skills. Students are guided on proper writing techniques, including using capital letters, punctuation marks, and maintaining neat presentation. The ultimate goal is to enhance writing abilities through editing and attention to detail.
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Thursday 28thJanuary Editing
Year 1 vowel digraph ur, ir girl, gurl burd, bird Shirt, shert furst, first Third, fird Turn, tern hert, hurt church, cherch berst, burst burn, bun Year 2 adding ing, er, ed, est and y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant after a single vowel patting, pating, paiting pated, patted, pattd humming, huming, hummin humed, hummed, hummd dropin, dropping, droping dropped, dropd, droped sader, sadr, sadder sadist, saddest, sadest runer, runner, runr runny, rune, runy Which spelling is correct?
Today we are learning to........ I am learning to edit my work. I am learning to spot mistakes and correct them. I will be successful if ... I can spot mistakes. I can correct the mistakes using the correct punctuation and spelling.
Task 1: Look back at your story from yesterday. Finish writing it if necessary, story writing can be a time consuming process. Read your writing. Can you spot any mistakes? This could be spellings, missing capital letters, commas, question marks, exclamation marks etc. Could you improve your writing? You could change words like big for a more interesting synonym, such as immense .
Look out for all the things below. Capital letter Full stop Finger Space Sit writing on the line Work quicker Letter reversed Start your work at the edge of the page Take care of the presentation Practise spelling keywords Maths marking
Task 2: Write out the passage and correct the mistakes. a sparkly golden envelope arrived in the post angelina new it was somthing special.she ripped open th envelope to find an invitation tothe bigest, most exciting event of the year. Im going to be a bridesmaid screamed angelina. Angelina was soo excited that she squeaked, cartwheeled and danced around orl morning She was nearly late for her lessons! On the wai home, Angelina imagined herself dancing in a byutiful long dress in front ovlots of wedding guests. She was so hapee becos she wud be a bridesmaid with Princess sophie.
