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:

Animal welfare objectives

• that animals should be treated with care and sensitivity
• to appreciate that humans have a responsibility to ensure the well-being of all animals, including minibeasts.

(The following list comprises only the strands, numbered from 1 to 12, that are relevant to this particular unit.)

1. Speaking

• Speak with clarity and use appropriate intonation when reading and reciting texts

2. Listening and responding

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

3. Group discussion and interaction

• Ensure that everyone contributes, allocate tasks, and consider alternatives and reach agreement
• Work effectively in groups by ensuring that each group member takes a turn challenging, supporting and moving on
• Listen to each other's views and preferences, agree the next steps to take and identify contributions by each group member

4. Drama

• Consider how mood and atmosphere are created in live or recorded performance

7. Understanding and interpreting texts

• Explore how particular words are used, including words and expressions with similar meanings

8. Engaging with and responding to texts

• Explain their reactions to texts, commenting on important aspects

9. Creating and shaping texts

• Draw on knowledge and experience of texts in deciding and planning what and how to write
• Make adventurous word and language choices appropriate to the style and purpose of the text
• 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 and write simple sentences independently to communicate meaning

12. Presentation

• Wordprocess short narrative and non-narrative texts