What if your job was to sleep?

Professional sleepers get paid to test hotel beds and mattresses for comfort, warmth, and support. Your students are about to read their new favourite job description, fixing errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling along the way.

Every student in the room reads the same passage. Each one works at the right level for them.

Built-In Differentiation — No Extra Planning
Each passage is provided at three levels, indicated by stars.
★ Support
★ ★ Expected
★ ★ ★ Greater Depth

Skills vary by level
All three levels cover sentence boundaries, capitalisation, and spelling
Higher levels add commas, apostrophes, and homophones.

What Students Do
Students read a short informational passage about a real odd job.
They identify errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
They rewrite the passage correctly, practising real editing skills rather than multiple choice answers.

What’s Included
One editing passage on the Professional Sleeper theme
Three differentiated versions — Support, Expected, and Greater Depth
Student response space on every version
Full answer key

SPaG Skills Covered
Sentence boundaries and capitalisation
Commas in lists and compound sentences
Apostrophes for contractions and possession
Homophones and commonly confused words
Spelling correction
Editing and proofreading
Aligned to KS2 and KS3 National Curriculum English objectives

Perfect For
Years 5 & 6
Mixed ability and SEN-inclusive classrooms
Literacy starters and warm-ups
Early finisher tasks
Guided reading and writing groups
Cover lessons and supply teacher plans
Quick SPaG assessment

Why Teachers Love It
No prep, just print and go.
Three differentiation levels mean no student is left out and no student is bored.
Real editing tasks rather than multiple choice — students rewrite, not just circle.
Students are genuinely surprised that professional sleeping is a real job.
A genuine sample of the paid product — same format, same differentiation, one passage.

Part of the Editing Passages Series
If your students enjoy this activity, explore the complete Real-Life Odd Jobs Editing Passages pack: five topics at three levels each.

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