Edit and Improve: Up-Level the Writing

Year 6 EnglishWriting4 pages

About this worksheet

Every task on these four pages mixes present and past tense on purpose, so Year 6 pupils must fix the tense and lift the vocabulary. They start with four single sentences, such as the giant who shouts loudly and stamped his big feet. Next they plan and rewrite a forest paragraph against a checklist. Last, they turn a flat dragon and knight climax into something thrilling and explain their changes with grammatical terms. The marker's key gives model rewrites. It links to England National Curriculum Year 6 grammar objectives.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œLearning the grammar for years 5 and 6 in English Appendix 2โ€

Sections 1 and 2 focus on a consistent past tense and on commas after fronted adverbials.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œUse and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 accurately and appropriately in discussing their writing and reading.โ€

Question 9 asks pupils to explain their edits with words such as adjective, verb, adverbial and noun phrase.

What's inside this worksheet

Section 1: Sentence Fixer

Four sentences with tense slips, such as "The dog runs into the park and catches the ball before he went home." Pupils rewrite each in the past tense with stronger words.

Section 2: The Editor's Checklist

A forest paragraph that begins "As the sun goes down we walked into the forest." Pupils tick a four-point checklist, list three changes and rewrite it.

Section 3: Master the Up-Level

Pupils rewrite the castle and dragon climax with expanded noun phrases and stronger verbs and adverbs, then explain two changes using terms like adverbial or noun phrase.

How teachers use it

Weekend homework

Send it home over a weekend. The marker's key has a model for every rewrite, so marking goes quickly.

Editing lesson

Model question 6 on the board first, then let pupils edit the forest paragraph in pairs.

Before a final draft

Use Section 3 the day before pupils redraft a story. The dragon passage shows how flat a climax reads without noun phrases.

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