Excellent Editing – Year 1 Unit Plan

Help Year 1 students become confident editors by teaching them to reread, check, and improve simple sentences. This ready-to-teach unit introduces a clear five-star routine covering capital letters, end punctuation, spelling, sentence meaning, and spaces.

The sequence supports whole-class modelling before students apply one editing focus at a time through games, guided examples, and print-friendly practice. Students then bring the five checks together in an editable quiz and integrated assessment. The pack is suitable for whole-class lessons, literacy rotations, small groups, partner work, revision, and independent evidence collection.

What's included

• 21-page unit plan PDF: one table of contents page and 20 printable resource pages
• 30-slide editable PowerPoint teaching presentation
• 22-slide editable PowerPoint quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
• Five-Star Editing classroom display
• Ending Mark Match instructions and sorting mat
• Ending Mark Match card page 1
• Ending Mark Match card page 2
• Five-Star Fix-It Hunt board
• Five-Star Fix-It Hunt task-card page 1
• Five-Star Fix-It Hunt task-card page 2
• Capital Letter Detectives worksheet with answer page
• Punctuation Patrol worksheet with answer page
• Spelling Spies worksheet with answer page
• Make It Make Sense worksheet with answer page
• Space Detectives worksheet with answer page
• Excellent Editing Challenge assessment with answer page
• Excellent Editing rubric with five performance levels

Learning focus

• Explain why writers reread and edit their work
• Check sentence beginnings and names for capital letters
• Choose full stops, question marks, and exclamation marks
• Identify and correct simple spelling errors
• Decide whether a sentence communicates a sensible meaning
• Check spaces between words and improve readability
• Apply all five editing checks to short sentences

Classroom use

Use the presentation for explicit teaching and modelling, the display for ongoing visual support, the two games for active partner or small-group practice, the five worksheets for literacy rotations or independent work, and the quiz and assessment for revision and evidence collection.

Formats, counts and answers

Formats: PDF and editable PPTX

Printable pages: 21 (table of contents plus 20 resource pages)

PowerPoint slides: 52 (30-slide presentation plus 22-slide quiz)

Total pages and slides: 73

Answers: Included for all five worksheets, the assessment, and all ten quiz questions

Teacher benefits

• A coherent lesson-to-assessment editing sequence in one pack
• Five memorable checks that students can reuse in future writing
• Multiple practice formats for whole-class, group, partner, and independent learning
• Editable presentation and quiz files
• Print-friendly worksheets and assessment pages
• Included answers and rubric for efficient checking and evidence collection

Digital product and licence

Digital download only; no physical item will be shipped. Use is subject to the licence supplied with purchase. Files may not be resold or redistributed.