Planning, Revising and Editing Writing
Plan, revise, and edit writing to improve coherence and effectiveness — considering how the writing reflects its intended audience and purpose, amending vocabulary, grammar, and structure, and proofreading for accurate spelling, punctuation, and grammar
Typical age: 11–14 years
“After your child finishes a first draft, do they go back and make real improvements — not just fixing spelling, but changing sentences or reorganising ideas to make it better?”
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- Literary and Language Terminology
Planning, revising, and editing written pieces requires knowledge of literary and linguistic terminology
- Revising and editing (age 8+)REQUIRED
Advanced independent plan/revise/edit (reflecting on audience and purpose, amending without teacher prompts) requires the self-critical reading skill as its foundation — a writer cannot revise independently without being able to judge their own work
- Revising and editing (age 7+)REQUIRED
KS3 revision and editing extends KS2 evaluating and editing writing
- Learning from Mistakes
Revising and editing requires analysing what is wrong with the current draft — the writing form of the universal error-analysis habit
- Reflecting After Learning
The full plan-revise-edit cycle is the writing-domain form of the universal learning-reflection habit — assessing what worked and improving it
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