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

• Respond appropriately to the contributions of others in light of differing viewpoints.

2. Listening and responding

• Compare the different contributions of music, words and images in short extracts from TV programmes.
• Investigate how talk varies with age, familiarity, gender and purpose.

7. Understanding and interpreting texts

• Explain how writers use figurative and expressive language to create images and atmosphere.

8. Engaging with and responding to texts

• Interrogate texts to deepen and clarify understanding and response.

9. Creating and shaping texts

• Develop and refine ideas in writing using planning and problem-solving strategies.
• Summarise and shape material and ideas from different sources to write convincing and informative non-narrative texts.
• Show imagination through language used to create emphasis, humour, atmosphere or suspense (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.)
• Choose and combine words, images and other features for particular effects.

11. Sentence structure and punctuation

• Clarify meaning and point of view by varied sentence structure using phrases, clauses and adverbials (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 word processing packages to present written work and continue to increase speed and accuracy in typing.