Strengthen Your Writing Revision and Editing Activity

Revision and editing checklist for planning, revising and editing a piece of writing, with a writer and teacher record covering sequencing, sensory details, spelling, capitalisation and punctuation.
Year levels
Pre-school (Early Years), Foundation–Year 3
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Updated Sep 26, 2026

Subject
Writing, English
Topic
Essays
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About this resource

This activity can help your students develop and strengthen their writing skills by planning, revising, and editing.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Check a draft for sequence, sensory details, spelling, capitalisation and punctuation

  • Revise writing based on checklist items

Teaching tips

  • The checklist has both writer and teacher columns, so the same sheet can record a student's self-check and the teacher's follow-up.

Skills covered

  • Self-editing — checking spelling, capitalisation and punctuation and marking the writer column

  • Revising — adding sensory details and fixing the order of events

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Core concepts

  • Revision

  • Editing

  • Sensory details

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