English Writing Compositionusually ages 7–11

Revising and editing (age 7+)

Evaluate and edit writing by assessing effectiveness, proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary for consistency, and proof-reading for spelling, grammar and punctuation errors at Y3-4 level

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Read own or a peer's writing aloud and suggest specific improvements to vocabulary or sentence structure
Propose changes to grammar and word choice to improve clarity and consistency across a piece of writing
Proof-read writing at Y3-4 level for spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors and correct them independently

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When your child revisits a draft piece of writing, can they improve it — changing word choices to be more precise, fixing inconsistent tenses, and correcting spelling and punctuation errors?

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Builds on

Revising and editingages 6–7Evaluating writing effectiveness and proposing changes builds on basic proofreading and revision

Writing Craft Vocabularyages 8–11Evaluating and editing for consistency requires vocabulary of 'coherence', 'cohesion', 'register', and 'style'

Revising and editing (age 8+)ages 8–9Evaluating and editing writing with teacher/peer support is enriched when the child can already independently notice where meaning is unclear — the self-critical reading skill makes the evaluation process more productive

Revising and editing (age 7+)this skill · ages 7–11

Unlocks

Planning, Revising and Editing Writingages 11–14KS3 revision and editing extends KS2 evaluating and editing writing

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9E1LY06medium confidenceYear 1 · Literacy

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

AC9E4LY04medium confidenceYear 4 · Literacy

read different types of texts, integrating phonic, semantic and grammatical knowledge to read accurately and fluently, re-reading and self-correcting when needed

AC9E3LY04low confidenceYear 3 · Literacy

read a range of texts using phonic, semantic and grammatical knowledge to read accurately and fluently, re-reading and self-correcting when required

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

EN2-CWT-01medium confidenceEnglish K-10 · Stage 2

EN2-CWT-02medium confidenceEnglish K-10 · Stage 2

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2E1LY14medium confidenceEnglish · Level 1 · Literacy strand

VC2E3LY12medium confidenceEnglish · Level 3 · Literacy strand

VC2E2LY12medium confidenceEnglish · Level 2 · Literacy strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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