Editing Stations
Editing station lessons allow the children with the opportunity to apply the skills gained in the editing lessons to improving their writing. This type of editing takes up the time of a complete lesson and takes place twice a half term. It is planned for in detail using the editing lesson planning format and resourced well to give the children support when improving their work. Within an editing stations lesson, the children rotate around 4 stations with a different focus on each. All children edit the same piece of writing during this time with areas of it chosen by the teacher for improvement.
E1 – Station 1
Examples:
- Capital letters and full stops
- Spellings (use of spelling mats or dictionaries)
- Missing words
- Checking it makes sense
- Letter formation/handwriting
- Incorrect or missing punctuation
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E2 – Station 2
Examples:
- Better choice of vocabulary (use of word cards or lists tailored to the piece of writing)
- Questions as prompts to add detail or for clarification
- Punctuation checklist (for taught punctuation) chn to tick the piece of punctuation if included or try to add it if not
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E3 – Station 3 Working with teacher
Examples:
- Impact of their writing
- Humour
- Atmosphere
- Plot
- Meaningful description of character and setting
- Sentence order and construction
- Fluidity
- Removal or improvement of specific words, speech, sentences, phrases or contradictions
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E3 – Station 4 Working with TA
Examples:
- Impact of their writing
- Humour
- Atmosphere
- Plot
- Meaningful description of character and setting
- Sentence order and construction
- Fluidity
- Removal or improvement of specific words, speech, sentences, phrases or contradictions
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