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Top tips for checking your writing

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  • Once your story is finished, read it to yourself.

  • Pretend that someone else wrote the story, see how well you think the story is written and then rewrite it to make it better.

  • Use conjunctions to make sure your sentences flow nicely and make sense.

  • Double-check your facts.

  • -Look out for spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes.

  • Look for words or sentences that you can make better by choosing different vocabulary, adding description or adding adverbs.

Most authors, even famous ones, rewrite their stories many times before they are happy to let someone else read them.

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Watch: How to proofread

How to proofread your writing to avoid errors.

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Watch: Proofreading your own work

Why is proofreading so useful? Watch this Teacher Talk for some helpful tips.

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Activity 1

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Activity 2

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Quiz

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Activity 4

Read 'Diary Extract 1'.

It鈥檚 a good start, but the spelling, punctuation and grammar needs proofreading. That's your job!

You could print the extract out and edit it by crossing out mistakes and adding in corrections, like your teacher would.

Or you could write a list of all the mistakes you can spot on a sheet of paper instead.

Top tip!

Look out for:

  • spelling mistakes

  • punctuation mistakes (such as missing full stops and capital letters)

  • grammatical errors (such as missing words or words not in the past tense)

Diary Extracts 1 and 2
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Activity 5

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Now read 'Diary Extract 2'.

Again, it鈥檚 a good start, but the quality of the writing could still be better.

Rewrite the extract, improving the quality by adding more detail and description.

Top tip!

You could:

  • add more impressive vocabulary
  • add adjectives
  • add adverbs
  • add more detail

For example:

'We went to a farm' could become 'We visited a beautiful farm, surrounded by green fields'.

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Use grammar, punctuation and spelling skills to explore jungles, caves and tombs on your mission!

Play our fun English game Crystal Explorers
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