What it is. Revision improves the language; editing fixes the mistakes. They are two different jobs.
Why our test works. Told to 'improve it', children correct spelling and change nothing that matters, because correcting is easier and feels productive. Separating the two jobs by name is the only thing that makes revision actually happen — and this is the first year it is asked for.
Leans on. Lessons 31-34, and the academic word work all term.
Watch for. Set a number: change three words, no more. Open revision produces nothing at this age.
Revise for language of the explanatory project. The worked example is the one you build on the board: Teacher shows the road map with today's slot named, and models revise for language on the The class reads the teaching page printed at the top of the sheet — our own writing, so a child who was absent can still get the lesson.
You open by saying where this sits — what it follows and what it is part of — in one sentence, and then you give them the reason it matters, in your own words, for about ten seconds.
Then you do one yourself, building it on the board and leaving it up: Teacher shows the road map with today's slot named, and models revise for language on the class piece — one slot only, so the model is followable. The board copy is what they look back at when they stall, so it stays there for the whole lesson.
The We-do is the main whiteboard moment of the lesson — short answers, boards up on your signal, every child visible at once. Class works the same slot on the shared piece, then reads two versions aloud and says which is clearer and why. If the answer is a whole sentence rather than a word, take it on the printed sheet instead, because a sentence written on a whiteboard is written once and destroyed.
They read the teaching page — printed at the top of today's sheet — with you, either read-aloud or FASE, never round robin. Stop at the worked example and let them look at it.
Exit directions in full, standing still, before anyone moves. Then they work alone: On the worksheet: revise for language for your own piece, double-spaced so there is room to correct.
You close on the exit direction — Read the one sentence you are most sure of. — taken from every child before anyone stands, and then the line you want them to still have tomorrow: Revising is changing words, not fixing spelling.
Set a number: change three words, no more. Open revision produces nothing at this age.