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

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

4. Drama

• Present part of traditional stories, their own stories or work drawn 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 between inflections and use of double letters
• Read and spell less common alternative graphemes including trigraphs

7. Understanding and interpreting texts

• Give some reasons why things happen or characters change

8. Engaging with and responding to texts

• Engage with books through exploring and enacting interpretations

9. Creating and shaping texts

• Sustain form in narrative, including use of person and time
• Select from different presentational features to suit particular writing purposes on paper and on screen

10. Text structure and organisation

• Use appropriate language to make sections hang together

11. Sentence structure and punctuation

• Compose sentences using tense consistently (present and past)

12. Presentation

• Wordprocess short narrative and non-narrative texts