Mark the Teacher! GPS editing activity + Lesson Plan

This resource involves training your students to mark and correct mistakes in your writing so they will be more comfortable and skilled at applying it in their own.

This is lesson 6 of my Adaptabubble Unit – three weeks of lessons that can be adapted to any text or theme. The included lesson plan contains suggestions for starters, a child-friendly explanation of the lesson, differentiation and plenary. The full unit will probably be available from Easter 2021.

It can be adapted for any text in minutes. All you need to do is add sentences or text with grammar, punctuation or spelling mistakes. Your students can spend the lesson pretending to be teachers or editors for publishing companies who are hoping to catch every error. It transforms children who are anxious and self-conscious or who get bored at the thought of dry grammar lessons.

Fear not if you are worried about generating super critical students! Both pages of the resource come with the slogan: making mistakes is part of being human, but learning from mistakes is part of being amazing! This growth mindset promotes the positive criticism is a healthy springboard for making progress and dismisses nit-picking as a negative behaviour.

As always, I hope to make this resource fully customisable in the future. Please contact me at adaptabubble@gmail.com for ideas or further details.

Please note: the text shown in the Cover Image is for illustrative purposes only. It was adapted from the Varjak Paw by S.F. Said and it is not included in the resource that you can download.