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.)

2. Listening and responding

• Listen to others in class, ask relevant questions and follow instructions

3. Group discussion and interaction

• Work effectively in groups by ensuring that each group member takes a turn challenging, supporting and moving on

4. Drama

• Adopt appropriate roles in small or large groups and consider alternative courses of action

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

8. Engaging with and responding to texts

• Engage with books through exploring and enacting interpretations
• Explain their reactions to texts, commenting on important aspects

9. Creating and shaping texts

• Sustain form in narrative, including use of person and time

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

• Compose sentences using tense consistently (present and past)