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.)

1. Speaking

• Tell real and imagined stories using the conventions of familiar story language

2. Listening and responding

• Respond to presentations by describing characters, repeating some highlights and commenting constructively

4. Drama

• Present part of traditional stories, their own stories or work from different parts of the curriculum for members of their own class

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

• Read independently and with increasing fluency longer and less familiar texts
• Spell with increasing accuracy and confidence, drawing on word recognition and knowledge of word structure, and spelling patterns
• Know how to tackle unfamiliar words that are not completely decodable
• Read and spell less common alternative graphemes including trigraphs
• Read high and medium frequency words independently and automatically

6. Word structure and spelling

• Spell with increasing accuracy and confidence, drawing on word recognition and knowledge of word structure, and spelling patterns including common inflections and use of double letters
• Read and spell less common alternative graphemes including trigraphs

7. Understanding and interpreting texts

• Draw together ideas and information from across a whole text, using simple signposts in the text
• Give some reasons why things happen and or characters change

9. Creating and shaping texts

• Draw on knowledge and experience of texts in deciding and planning what and how to write
• Select from different presentational features to suit particular writing purposes on paper and on screen

10. Text structure and organisation

• Use planning to establish clear sections for 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.)
  

11. Sentence structure and punctuation

• Write simple and compound sentences and begin to use subordination in relation to time and reason  (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

• Word process short narrative and non-narrative texts