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

4. Drama

• Reflect on how working in role helps to explore complex issues

7. Understanding and interpreting texts

• Infer writers' perspectives from what is written and from what is implied
• Compare different types of narrative and information texts and identify how they are structured

8. Engaging with and responding to texts

• Compare the usefulness of techniques such as visualisation, prediction and empathy in exploring the meaning of texts
• Compare how a common theme is presented in poetry, prose and other media

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

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

• Use a range of ICT programs to present texts, making informed choices about which electronic tools to use for different purposes