B6 English Language · Term 3 Week 4: Writing as a Process

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B6.4.9.3.2 - Edit/proofread draft, checking capitalisation, usage, punctuation and spelling

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify and correct errors in capitalisation in a given draft, including sentence beginnings and proper nouns.
Correct punctuation errors, including full stops, question marks, exclamation marks and commas, in a draft.
Correct spelling errors in a draft using knowledge of common spelling patterns and a dictionary where needed.
Apply the proofreading process to their own three-paragraph draft from the previous lesson, marking corrections clearly.
Use a simple proofreading checklist to peer-edit a classmate’s draft and discuss the corrections made.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Writing (Strand 4)
Sub-strand: Writing as a Process (4.9)
Content standard: B6.4.9.3 - Apply strategies for improving drafts for publishing
Indicator: B6.4.9.3.2 - Edit/proofread draft, checking capitalisation, usage, punctuation and spelling
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 4 (Week 28 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Source document note: The official curriculum document has a fault in this entry, so the curriculum text above is transcribed exactly as printed:

exemplars - p.203
Curriculum reference: English Language Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 201
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Have learners pick up their clean draft (Refer to B5 4.3.1) and check for conventions. E.g. errors in capitalisation, punctuation and spelling.
Tips for learners: i. Do my sentences have proper punctuation? E.g. full stop, question mark, exclamation mark.
ii. Have I used commas correctly? iii. Do my sentences start with capital letters? iv. Have I capitalised proper nouns?
- Have learners do peer editing.
- Have them prepare neat final copies.
- Guide them to proofread the final copies before publishing. This indicator is printed a second time on printed p.203, truncated to its first bullet. Only the printed p.201 printing is transcribed. **Printed p.203 then carries the whole of sub-strand 4.10 (Narrative Writing) - content standard B6.4.10.1 "Narrate situations, express feelings and convey point of view about the world/ or fictional world", a Reflective Writing explanation, a Then/Now chart and a pre-writing strategy - with NO indicator code printed anywhere. That block is therefore in no row of this CSV; see REPORT.md 4l, which quotes it in full. Giving it a code is a human decision.**