What is proofreading?

Proofreading is when you check your work to make sure it looks good and has no mistakes.

Imagine you’ve just finished drawing a beautiful picture, maybe a rainbow with happy animals dancing in the sky. But then you look at it again, and you notice one of the animals has three legs instead of four! That’s like proofreading, you’re looking for little errors that might have slipped through when you were busy being creative.

When you write something, like a story or a letter, you might not see all the tiny mistakes. Proofreading is like taking a second look to find those mistakes, maybe a word is spelled wrong, or a sentence doesn’t make sense.

Think of proofreading as tidy-up time for your writing. Just like you pick up toys after playing, you go through your work and fix any little things that need fixing so everything looks neat and ready to be shared.