To ensure effective planning of literacy teachers need to ensure they plan for all elements of literacy effectively across the year ensuring that assessment for learning is used to plan and amend teaching. It is essential that core skills such as phonic strategies, spelling, and handwriting are incorporated into these exemplar units to ensure effective learning.

Most children learn to:
(The following list comprises only the strands, numbered 1 through 12, that are relevant to this particular unit.)

4. Drama

• Explore familiar themes and characters through improvisation and role-play

5. Word recognition: decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling)

• Recognise and use alternative ways of pronouncing the graphemes already taught
• Recognise and use alternative ways of spelling the graphemes already taught
• Identify the constituent parts of two-syllable and three-syllable words to support application of phonic knowledge and skills
• Recognise automatically an increasing number of familiar high frequency words
• Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the prime approach to reading and spelling unfamiliar words that are not completely decodable
• Read more challenging texts which can be decoded using their acquired phonic knowledge and skills, along with automatic recognition of high frequency words
• Read and spell phonically decodable two-syllable and three-syllable words

6. Word structure and spelling

• Spell new words using phonics as the prime approach
• Segment sounds into their constituent phonemes in order to spell them correctly
• Recognise and use alternative ways of spelling the graphemes already taught
• Use knowledge of common inflections in spelling, such as plurals, -ly, -er
• Read and spell phonically decodable two-syllable and three-syllable words

7. Understanding and interpreting texts

• Use syntax and context when reading for meaning
• Recognise the main elements that shape different texts

9. Creating and shaping texts

• Use key features of narrative in their own writing  (This link will take you to the relevant Steps in learning for this objective. Use the 'back' button on your browser to return to the objectives.)
• Create short simple texts on paper and on screen that combine words with images (and sounds)

11. Sentence structure and punctuation

• Compose and write simple sentences independently to communicate meaning  (This link will take you to the relevant Steps in learning for this objective. Use the 'back' button on your browser to return to the objectives.)
  
• Use capital letters and full stops when punctuating simple sentences  (This link will take you to the relevant Steps in learning for this objective. Use the 'back' button on your browser to return to the objectives.)
  

12. Presentation

• Use the space bar and keyboard to type their name and simple texts