Editing and improving writing with primary pupils

Lessons, activities, writing mats and editing tools to support your pupils as they edit and improve their writing

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Tools and techniques lessons to ease the editing process for your primary pupils

Help your primary learners to make the most of their writing and hone their editing and improving skills, with this hand-picked collection of lesson activities, editing stations, writing mats and checklists from the Tes community, covering everything from uplevelling vocabulary and accurate use of tenses, to sentence structure and proof-reading for spelling, punctuation and grammar.

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Editing stations and prompt sheets
LaurenWalters

Editing stations and prompt sheets

FREE
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I use these editing stations and prompt sheets within my editing lessons to help support the children. When editing, each child spends 10 minutes on each station thinking specifically about what is on the sheet. This frees up their working memory and ensures that each child can focus on the editing...
Improving Sentences Uplevelling Writing
FullShelf

Improving Sentences Uplevelling Writing

£3.50
(3)
Upper Key Stage 2 (KS2) creative writing resource to improve your students' sentence structure. Whether used as a regular SPaG warm up or VCOP starter for writing, early finisher task, or main lesson task, these creative writing worksheets will get your students uplevelling their writing and extendi...
SPaG - Writing Checklists
TesPrimary

SPaG - Writing Checklists

FREE
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A set of five simple check-list style cards that pupils can use when checking their own work. Focuses on capitalisation, punctuation, grammar, editing work and revising work. Could be printed off at a smaller size if required. Additional editable versions have been added in PowerPoint format - these...
Editing writing - making it more interesting
alarter

Editing writing - making it more interesting

FREE
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This resource has a powerful piece of writing which has a variety of sentence starters, different sentence types, excellent punctuation, similes, metaphors & hooks the reader with rhetorical questions. Children are to identify all these aspects of writing teacher stylie! They should highlight an...
Editing pencils
kaleigh_bligh

Editing pencils

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Checklists for children to edit their writing, allowing them to take responsibility for their own work.
Writing Editing Bingo Card
lgough

Writing Editing Bingo Card

£1.00
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Can be double-sided and laminated to be used throughout the school year. This is a two page guide to show children what we are looking for when we assess their writing at the end of Key Stage Two. It explains and gives examples of each feature. Can be used for children to assess their own writin...
Drafting - How to Improve Writing
Online_Teaching_Resources

Drafting - How to Improve Writing

£3.00
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'Drafting - How to Improve Writing' is a PowerPoint teaching resource with 3 accompanying worksheets designed to help teach pupils how to redraft effectively to improve writing. The resource can be tweaked, edited and differentiated to suit your teaching needs and is easy to update over time. 'Draf...
Editing Stations
markcornell

Editing Stations

FREE
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Slides to support lower KS2 children in editing and improving their writing. To begin the class 'stops' at each editing station together and we model how to carry out each activity. As they become more secure and independent, the children can move from one station to the next in groups as a carousel...
Proofreading & Editing Cards
Katherine Chung

Proofreading & Editing Cards

£2.00
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Say goodbye to constant reminders about full stops and capital letters and say hello to student-led improvements with these proofreading and editing cards! These differentiated cards are carefully crafted to suit various writing genres, ensuring that while success criteria may change, the core elem...
Editing poster for KS1 and KS2
EDWEducation

Editing poster for KS1 and KS2

£1.00
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This resource is an editing poster that encourages pupils to firstly check carefully through their work for those simple errors they can often make. It then demonstrates how to further improve their writing and take it to the next level. The poster is child friendly and broken down into clear, ach...