Drafting: Grammar

English: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 2.4.6

Drafting: Grammar

What is drafting?

What is drafting?

  • Drafting means doing a rough piece of work that you plan to make better later on.
  • You need to think about your grammar when you are drafting.
Use grammar correctly

Use grammar correctly

  • Make sure you are using your grammar correctly.
Layout

Layout

  • Make sure that how your writing looks is easy for the reader to understand.
  • Layout means how your writing looks on the page.
Vocabulary

Vocabulary

  • Make sure you are using lots of different vocabulary.
  • Using different vocabulary makes your writing exciting.
Why write a draft?

Why write a draft?

  • Writing a draft allows you to:
  • Write down and organise all of your thoughts.
  • Improve your writing at a later stage more easily.

Test yourself on Drafting: Grammar

  • What do we call the rough version of a piece of writing that we improve later?

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