How can you tell they’ve got it: Checking Your Own Work?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: After finishing a piece of work, re-read or review it without being asked to; Spot and correct at least one error in their own work by checking back through it; Describe what they checked for — e.g. 'I re-read each line to make sure my answers matched the question'. Or just try it together: 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?

Learning to Learn Ages 5–6

Checking Your Own Work

Your child looks back over their work when they finish. They can read it again and fix a mistake before saying they are done.

In curriculum terms

After finishing a task, look back at what you did and ask yourself: does this seem right?

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How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

After finishing a piece of work, re-read or review it without being asked to
Spot and correct at least one error in their own work by checking back through it
Describe what they checked for — e.g. 'I re-read each line to make sure my answers matched the question'

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Try this together

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

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

This skill aligns to ACARA’s General Capabilities rather than a learning-area code.

Nearby on the map

Asking for Helpages 5–6 Persisting When It's Hardages 5–6 Feeling of not understandingages 6–7 Planning a Taskages 6–7

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