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Checking Your Own Work
After finishing a task, look back at what you did and ask yourself: does this seem right?
Typical age: 5–6 years
“After your child finishes a piece of work or activity, do they look it over themselves to check it seems right before saying they're done?”
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- Responding to Writing Feedback
Re-reading own writing to check it makes sense is the writing-domain form of the universal self-checking habit
- Planning a TaskREQUIRED
Planning before a task grows from the habit of checking back after finishing — both are self-regulatory bookends
- Learning from Mistakes
Investigating why something was wrong grows from the earlier habit of checking whether an answer seems right
- Making Sense of Problems
Checking whether a maths answer makes sense applies the universal self-checking habit to a mathematical context