Students revise writing by strengthening purpose, organisation, and clarity at sentence, paragraph, and whole-text level.
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The revision ladder explicitly teaches students how to improve a draft for meaning and structure before turning to surface editing.
Useful when kaiako want revision taught as a purposeful stage, not as last-minute correction.
Students consider audience and purpose when refining tone, detail, and structure so the writing better fits the task.
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The task keeps asking what the reader needs and whether the current draft achieves that effect, which is central to effective revision.
Strong for self-review, peer-review, and teacher conferencing sequences.
Students use language accurately and responsibly, including checking grammar, punctuation, names, and culturally important references.
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The accuracy stage includes te reo Māori, local names, and cultural-care checks, which keeps revision connected to respectful writing in Aotearoa.
This also gives kaiako a practical mātauranga Māori checkpoint: students can revise for correct kupu, tikanga, and respectful handling of people, places, and stories.
Especially useful where students need to see that correctness includes respectful handling of people, place, and language.