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Year 5, Year 6

Peer Word Editing

Peer Word Editing

Year 5, Year 6

Peer Word Editing is a step-by-step approach that helps children refine their vocabulary choices with increasing confidence. The sheets provide progressive difficulty, guiding pupils through three clear stages:

  • Offering alternatives – suggesting different words that might work better.
  • Explaining why – justifying their choices to show understanding.
  • Deciding whether to change the original word or not – making a thoughtful editing decision.

Perfect for sentence-level editing and whole-class text editing, these resources give pupils the opportunity to practise editing in different contexts. With three versions that gradually increase in challenge,