Create and Edit Short Texts

Learning goal: I can create, reread and edit a short text so its sentences, vocabulary, punctuation and spelling make sense.

• Use an appropriate text structure and correct simple sentences when creating a text.
• Use learning-area vocabulary where it helps meaning.
• Sequence images and captions in a digital story or information text.
• Add, remove or change words to improve meaning.
• Use dictionaries and other resources to check spelling.
• Notice words that may need a spelling check.

Steps to use

Plan → Write → Re-read → Edit sentence/punctuation/spelling → Publish

Write, then re-read like an editor

Edit one thing at a time

Curriculum Coverage & Elaborations

The content description is the required target. The elaborations below are taught as examples and contexts, not as disconnected checklist wording.

• E1: applying emerging knowledge of text structure and grammar when creating text
• E2: using learning area vocabulary when creating text
• E3: creating digital images and composing a story or information sequence on screen using images and captions
• E4: adding or deleting words on a page or screen to improve meaning; for example, adding an adjective to add meaning to a noun
• E5: beginning to use dictionaries and resources to check and correct spelling
• E6: identifying words that might not be spelt correctly

• No re-reading — Read the text aloud to catch missing words.
• Editing everything at once — Check sentence, punctuation and spelling separately.
• Topic vocabulary missing — Add one precise word from the topic.

1. Sentence audit — Check one sentence for capital, verb and end mark.
   The frog jumps.
2. Topic-word insert — Add one precise topic word to a report sentence.
   habitat / shelter
3. Edit with a partner — Read aloud and fix one spelling or punctuation error.
   my cat sleeps → My cat sleeps.

Quick checks

• Why re-read your writing?
• Fix: sam went home
• What is a topic word?
• Name one thing to check when editing.

I am ready when I can

• I can use an appropriate text structure and correct simple sentences when creating a text.
• I can use learning-area vocabulary where it helps meaning.
• I can sequence images and captions in a digital story or information text.
• I can add, remove or change words to improve meaning.
• I can use dictionaries and other resources to check spelling.

Curriculum equivalents for And re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to...

Mapped skill: create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllable words

These references identify matching or closely related learning. Curriculum sequence, terminology and depth vary, so teachers should use the mapped skill and lesson difficulty to confirm suitability.

Australian Curriculum v9.0 is the canonical source for this SkillrHub lesson. Victoria and NSW entries name the closest published state codes or outcomes; international entries are planning references rather than claims of identical curricula.