Starter quiz
- What language feature is shown in the following sentence? 'When Miss Murphy slammed the door, Addie shuddered.'
- relative complex sentence
- fronted adverbial of place
- fronted adverbial of time
- adverbial complex sentence ✓
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- What punctuation is missing from the following sentence? 'With a smirk Emily watched Addie from across the room.'
- a full stop
- a colon
- a comma ✓
- a hyphen
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- What punctuation is missing from the following sentence? 'Addie wiped her tear stained face with her hands.'
- comma
- hyphen ✓
- full stop
- semi-colon
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- Why has a colon been used in the following sentence? 'There was a pile of crumpled tissues next to her: she had been sobbing for what felt like hours.'
- to introduce a list
- to introduce a question
- to introduce an explanation ✓
- to follow an explanation
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- Which of these sentences is correctly punctuated?
- The room is too small; Addie feels overwhelmed. ✓
- The room is too small, Addie feels overwhelmed.
- The room is too small: Addie feels overwhelmed.
- The room is too small Addie feels overwhelmed.
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- Which of these sentences is correctly punctuated?
- "You have a disease" Sneered Emily.
- "You have a disease" sneered Emily.
- "You have a disease," sneered Emily. ✓
- "You have a disease", sneered Emily.
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Exit quiz
- Who needs to edit their writing?
- professional authors
- people who make a lot of mistakes
- people with bad spelling
- everyone ✓
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- Which of the following are likely to be part of an editing process?
- checking spelling ✓
- rewriting sentences to improve cohesion ✓
- rewriting a large part of the work
- improving vocabulary choices ✓
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- Which piece of punctuation is missing from the following sentence? 'That was when she understood really understood the importance of what had happened to the women.'
- hyphen
- dashes ✓
- colon
- semi-colon
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- Which sentence punctuates the inverted commas used correctly?
- "I'm sorry," said Mum, "but this isn't acceptable." ✓
- "I'm sorry," said Mum "but this isn't acceptable."
- "I'm sorry" said Mum, "but this isn't acceptable."
- "I'm sorry," said Mum, "but this isn't acceptable"
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- Which of these sentences use tense correctly to ensure good text cohesion?
- The university was huge and Addie feels a little unsure for the first time.
- The university is huge and Addie felt a little unsure for the first time.
- The university was huge and Addie felt a little unsure for the first time. ✓
- The university is huge and Addie feels a little unsure for the first time. ✓
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- Which features in the following sentence make it appropriate for a third person description? 'Mr Macintosh beamed broadly at the small crowd of journalists who had assembled politely.'
- adjectives (small) ✓
- adverbs (broadly, politely) ✓
- interesting verbs (beamed, assembled) ✓
- informal language
- contractions
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Key learning points
- Editing is a critical part of the writing process.
- Writing is most successful when editing is used to rethink, rephrase and reconsider first ideas.
- Editing can be done by oneself, with a peer or with a teacher.
- Editing is most successful when it is chunked by punctuation, sentence structure, cohesive devices and vocabulary.
- A growth mindset helps us benefit most from editing.
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to adopt a positive mindset towards editing.
Encourage pupils to see this as an opportunity to push themselves towards producing a polished piece of work that shows off all their skills. Having a real audience for the text in mind will help them with this.
Keywords
Cohesive devices - language structures that develop text cohesion
Text cohesion - how a text flows to maintain the interest of the reader and achieve text purpose
Growth mindset - a desire to keep developing any skill set
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