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

• Tell a story using notes designed to cue techniques, such as repetition, recap and humour

2. Listening and responding

• Identify different question types and evaluate their impact on the audience

4. Drama

• Reflect on how working in role helps to explore complex issues
• Perform a scripted scene making use of dramatic conventions

6. Word structure and spelling

• Spell words containing unstressed vowels
• Know and use less common prefixes and suffixes, such as im-, ir-, -cian

7. Understanding and interpreting texts

• Make notes on and use evidence from across a text to explain events or ideas
• 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

• Compare the usefulness of techniques such as visualisation, prediction and empathy in exploring the meaning of texts

9. Creating and shaping texts

• Reflect independently and critically on their own writing and edit and improve it (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.)
• Experiment with different narrative forms and styles to write their own stories

10. Text structure and organisation

• Experiment with the order of sections and paragraphs to achieve different effects (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

• Adapt sentence construction to different text-types, purposes and readers (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.)
• 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
• Use a range of ICT programs to present texts, making informed choices about which electronic tools to use for different purposes