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Editing Stations

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

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

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

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

Editing Stations - Use of cohesion and order of information

Editing Stations - Use of speech to move on the action, description of a setting and fronted adverbials

Editing stations - Use of adverbs, improve the setting description and add description of the atmosphere/emotion.

Sycamore editing their stories

Willow's editing stations set up