Editing Checklist
Revising Checklist
Do my sentences begin
with capital letters?
Have I written an
interesting introduction?
Have I spelt everything
correctly?
Have I used interesting
vocabulary?
Does each sentence
end with a punctuation
mark?
Have I used a selection of
different conjunctions?
Have I used paragraphs?
Have I used complete
sentences?
Is my work neatly
presented?
Does my conclusion
make sense?
Punctuation
Full Stop – ends a sentence
Question Mark – ends a
question
Capitalisation
Beginning of a sentence?
Personal pronoun I?
Exclamation Mark – shows
feeling or emotion
Landmarks and important
places (e.g. France,
Manchester, Big Ben)?
Names of Characters?
Comma – separates words
in a series or marks clauses
Days of the week and
months of the year?
Speech Marks – shows
speech
Formal titles (e.g. Mrs., Dr.) ?
Apostrophe – shows
possession or contraction
Important dates (e.g.
Children’s Day)?
Grammar
 Subject – who or what the
sentence is about
 Noun – person, place, thing
 Verb – action word
 Adjective – describing word
 Adverb – tells how, where,
when or how much
 Preposition – shows location
or time