Ideas for helping your child spot and fix English mistakes.
19 October 2026
Capital letters and full stops are the first proofreading mistakes children meet — and the easiest to skip. The five rules for P1–P2, why children miss them, and a daily five-minute check.
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A grade-by-grade guide to proofreading mistakes: capitals and a/an in P1, verb agreement and tenses in P2–P3, apostrophes, comparatives and confusable words in P4–P6.
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Seven quick games that turn English proofreading into play for P1–P6 children: swap roles, spot the slip, mistake bingo and more. No printing, five to ten minutes each.
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Finding mistakes is a separate skill from knowing grammar. Here is a step-by-step routine — read slowly, check one thing at a time, say it aloud — that P1–P6 children can learn.
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From P4, proofreading moves to passages where some lines have a mistake and some don't. A five-step routine for checking a whole passage, with a worked example and answers.
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20 free proofreading sentences for P2 and P3, each with one mistake to find and correct, plus answers and a one-line explanation of every mistake for parents.
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PSLE Editing for Spelling and Grammar is 10 one-mark items in Paper 2 Booklet B. What the task asks, why children lose marks, and a routine to practise it at home from P4.
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Children miss planted mistakes because they read for meaning, rush, skip the edges or don't know what to look for. Six common reasons and a fix for each that works at home.
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