Punctuation station: Stop here to edit and perfect your punctuation. Use the questions and prompts to help you.

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1 Punctuation station: Stop here to edit and perfect your punctuation. Use the questions and prompts to help you. Capital letters at the start of every sentence, and for any proper nouns. Full stops at the end of every sentence. Top tip: look for pronouns to help you find the start of a new sentence. Have you checked to see if any of your sentences need a question mark (?) or an exclamation mark (!). Check your use of apostrophes (contraction & possession). Commas Have you used them correctly: to separate items in a list after adverbial phrases around relative clauses before a subordinate clause? If you ve included speech, check all the punctuation around it! You could try using brackets / dashes to add extra information. You could try using semi-colons or colons if you know how they work (for lists or to separate independent clauses) Page 1 of 7

2 Spelling street: Stop here to edit and perfect your spelling. Use the questions and prompts to help you. Edit and improve your writing posters Read your work, looking for spellings that don t look right if it doesn t seem right, check it! Look closely at high frequency words that you should be spelling correctly. Have you used all your prefixes and suffixes correctly? Remember to use a dictionary to check all your spellings. You may have to look for the root word to find some of them. Example: don t look for unhappy, look for happy. Highlight any words you have used that also appear in the year 5/6 spelling list. Remember the rules you have been taught and apply them. How do you add -ly, -ing, -s? How do you begin words with un-, ir-, im-? Try to find 100% of your misspelled words make your teacher work hard to find a correction! Page 2 of 7

3 Vocabulary junction: Stop here to edit and perfect your vocabulary. Use the questions and prompts to help you. Look for any words you can make more exciting by using a synonym. Example: using delighted instead of happy. Make sure you use the synonym correctly; you might have to change part of the sentence too if it doesn t make sense. Check to see if you ve included some exciting imagery: similes and metaphors onomatopoeia alliteration (repeated starting letter) assonance (repeated vowel sounds) personification (bring objects to life). Have you tried using a hyphen? This is a quick and easy way to up-level your writing. Create a hyphenated word to join a noun and adjective together instead of just a boring adjective! Examples: accident-prone, blue-eyed, sugar-free. Choose better conjunctions to improve your writing. Use FANBOYS to coordinate and subordinate to add extra information. Examples: although, because, after, since, even though, if Page 3 of 7

4 Adverb central: Stop here to edit and perfect your adverbial phrases. Use the questions and prompts to help you. Check you have included adverbs or adverbial phrases in your work. They will describe how, where or when something is done. They often end in ly. Examples: slowly, today, meekly, always. Can you start some of your sentences with a fronted adverbial? Think carefully about which words you choose. If you have lots of sentences starting with he, it, then or the change some! Look to see if you ve also included: prepositional phrases under, on, below, between paragraphs to organise your ideas expanded noun phrases The large, red post box. Try to change the position of the adverbial within your sentences. It doesn t have to go at the start have you tried to put one at the end of a sentence, or even in the middle? Page 4 of 7

5 Clauses common: Stop here to edit and perfect your different clauses. Use the questions and prompts to help you. Have you included any relative clauses? These usually begin with a relative pronoun: when, that, where, whose, which, who, whom Have you remembered to put your commas in the right place? Have you tried to include a subordinate clause? These give extra information about the main (or independent) clause. It doesn t make sense on its own. Check to see if you ve included some conjunctions to join clauses, phrases and to add extra information: and / but / if / so / when / because before / even though / after / although / while / besides / as well as also / in addition to / nevertheless / however / despite Look at where your subordinate clause appears in the sentence. Can you have a go at changing the order of a sentence so the clause appears in a different place? Can you put the clause at the start, middle or end? Page 5 of 7

6 Verb park: Stop here to edit and perfect your verbs. Use the questions and prompts to help you. Edit and improve your writing posters Do all your verb tenses agree? If your work is written in the past tense, your verbs should be too! Highlight your verbs A sentence is not really a sentence without one, so check you have one in every independent clause! Don t forget that be, am, was, are, is, were and went are all verbs. Can you up-level your verbs? Check some of the verbs you have used and see if there is a better word you can use instead. Try starting a sentence with a verb or verb phrase. Avoid the overuse of these verbs: said, walk, went and find something else to use! Think about what your character is doing and start the sentence with that instead: Creeping through the forest, Ash felt nervous and alone Page 6 of 7

7 Teacher s notes Use as a classroom display to help children to edit their work. Alternatively, place each station on a separate table when children are editing their writing. They take their work to the table (or tables) they think they need the most and use these posters to prompt their editing. For example, on the spelling station, there would be dictionaries, spelling lists, etc. and the children would only check spelling at that station Page 7 of 7