teaching resource

Year 3 Editing Passages

  • Updated

    Updated:  05 Nov 2024

Use this set of Year 3 editing passages to help your students demonstrate their spelling, punctuation and grammar knowledge.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides, PowerPoint

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  1 Page

  • Curriculum
  • Year

    Year:  3

Curriculum

  • VC2E3LA02

    Understand how the language of evaluation and emotion can be varied to be more or less forceful <ul> <li>recognising how choice of adverbs, nouns and verbs present different evaluations of characters in texts</li> <li>exploring examples of language that demonstrate a range of emotions and positions, and building a vocabulary to express judgements about characters or events, for example ‘The wizard was cunning, expert, inventive’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E3LA09

    Understand how modal verbs indicate obligation, probability and possibility <ul> <li>exploring how modal verbs (for example, ‘must’, ‘might’ and ‘could’) indicate degrees of probability or obligation</li> </ul>

  • VC2E3LA11

    Extend topic-specific and technical vocabulary and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts <ul> <li>identifying and using technical words to describe length, for example metric units of length such as ‘millimetre’ and ‘centimetre’</li> <li>identifying and using words to describe features of narratives, for example ‘character’, ‘plot’ and ‘setting’</li> <li>identifying words that have different meanings in different contexts, for example ‘warm temperature’ and ‘warm character’</li> <li>extending vocabulary by adding prefixes and suffixes to base words, for example ‘different’, ‘differently’ and ‘difference’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E3LA12

    Understand that apostrophes signal missing letters in contractions, and how apostrophes are used to show singular and plural possession in regular and irregular nouns <ul> <li>using apostrophes to create contractions; for example, ‘do not’ becomes ‘don’t’, ‘will not’ becomes ‘won’t’ and ‘of the clock’ becomes ‘o’clock’</li> <li>using apostrophes to show singular possession, for example ‘my friend’s book’ and ‘the princess’s shoe’</li> <li>using apostrophes to show plural possession, for example ‘the bees’ hive’ and ‘the princesses’ shoes’</li> <li>using apostrophes to show plural possessions in irregular nouns, for example ‘the children’s shoes’ and ‘the mice’s cheese’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E3LY06

    Recognise and know how to write most high-frequency words, including some homophones <ul> <li>using context and syntactic knowledge to spell homophones, for example ‘break’ and ‘brake’ or ‘ate’ and ‘eight’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E3LY11

    Create narrative, informative and persuasive texts, written and spoken, with ideas grouped in simple paragraphs, using topic-specific and precise vocabulary and multimodal elements as appropriate <ul> <li>gathering information and ideas about a topic in preparation for writing, which may include information and ideas from online and digital sources</li> <li>researching a topic to prepare an oral or multimodal presentation</li> <li>planning the sequence of ideas and information using techniques such as storyboards or a simple flow chart</li> <li>explaining ideas to a peer when planning a presentation</li> <li>selecting an appropriate text structure for a writing purpose, and sequencing content for clarity and to have an impact on an audience</li> <li>using appropriate simple and compound sentences to express and combine ideas</li> <li>using vocabulary, including topic-specific vocabulary, relevant to the type of text and purpose</li> <li>using digital tools to plan, sequence, compose and edit texts</li> </ul>

  • VC2E3LY12

    Re-read and edit texts for meaning, appropriate structure, grammatical choices and punctuation <ul> <li>using print and online dictionaries and spellcheck to edit spelling, realising that spellcheck accuracy depends on understanding the word function, for example ‘there’ or ‘their’ and ‘rain’ or ‘reign’</li> <li>checking for correct use of apostrophes for contractions and to indicate possession</li> </ul>

teaching resource

Year 3 Editing Passages

  • Updated

    Updated:  05 Nov 2024

Use this set of Year 3 editing passages to help your students demonstrate their spelling, punctuation and grammar knowledge.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides, PowerPoint

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  1 Page

  • Curriculum
  • Year

    Year:  3

Use this set of Year 3 editing passages to help your students demonstrate their spelling, punctuation and grammar knowledge.

A Set of Year 3 Editing Passages

Editing is a crucial skill for students to learn. It has many benefits, such as building attention to detail, improving clarity and enhancing self-expression.

Help your learners strengthen their language skills with this set of editing passages. This resource contains 20 short editing passages crafted specifically for Year 3 students, covering age-appropriate topics that make grammar practice more authentic for students. Each passage is at the appropriate lexile level for Year 3 students, ensuring a comfortable reading experience while promoting essential language skills.

The language skills addressed in this set of editing passages include:

  • Spelling (including homophones)
  • Capital letters
  • End punctuation
  • Apostrophes of contraction
  • Commas

Year 3 Editing Passages: What to Expect

Each slide contains a short passage, an image and a set of instructions. The instructions inform students of the mistakes they need to find and fix within the passage. 

Following each slide is an answer slide where all of the required changes are highlighted in a different colour from the rest of the text.

Prefer task cards to a slide deck? We have you covered! Use the drop-down menu on the Download button to choose your preferred file format for these Year 3 editing passages from the options below:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint presentation
  • Google Slides presentation
  • Google Slides editable task cards
  • PDF task cards

The task card option can be used in a variety of ways in your editing lessons, such as:

  • Bell ringer activity
  • Active scoot game
  • Literacy group activity
  • Independent practice
  • Exit ticket

Download These Year 3 Editing Paragraphs

Use the Download button to access your preferred version of this resource. You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides presentation before accessing it.


Brittany Collins, a Teach Starter collaborator, contributed to this resource.


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