Checking Your Own Work
After finishing a task, look back at what you did and ask yourself: does this seem right?
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After your child finishes a piece of work or activity, do they look it over themselves to check it seems right before saying they're done?
Where this sits on the map
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Builds on
Nothing on the map comes before this — it’s a starting point.
Checking Your Own Workthis skill · ages 5–6
Unlocks
Planning a Taskages 6–7Planning before a task grows from the habit of checking back after finishing — both are self-regulatory bookends
Making Sense of Problemsages 5–6Checking whether a maths answer makes sense applies the universal self-checking habit to a mathematical context
Responding to Writing Feedbackages 5–7Re-reading own writing to check it makes sense is the writing-domain form of the universal self-checking habit
Learning from Mistakesages 8–9Investigating why something was wrong grows from the earlier habit of checking whether an answer seems right
solid = must come firstdashed = helps
Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
This skill aligns to ACARA’s General Capabilities rather than a learning-area code.