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.)

3. Group discussion and interaction

• Plan and manage a group task over time using different levels of planning
• Understand different ways to take the lead and support others in groups
• Understand the process of decision making

7. Understanding and interpreting texts

• Infer writers' perspectives from what is written and what is implied
• Compare different types of narrative and information texts and identify how they are structured
• Explore how writers use language for comic and dramatic effects

8. Engaging with and responding to texts

• Reflect on reading habits and preferences and plan personal reading goals
• Compare the usefulness of techniques such as visualisation, prediction and empathy in exploring the meaning of texts

9. Creating and shaping texts

• Experiment with different narrative forms and styles to write their own stories

11. Sentence structure and punctuation

• Punctuate sentences accurately, including using speech marks and apostrophes (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

• Adapt handwriting for specific purposes, for example printing, use of italics