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.)

2. Listening and responding

• Identify some aspects of talk which vary between formal and informal occasions

7. Understanding and interpreting texts

• 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, empathy, in exploring the meaning of texts

9. Creating and shaping texts

• Reflect independently and critically on 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.)
• Adapt non-narrative forms and styles to write fiction or factual texts, including poems
• Vary pace and develop viewpoint through the use of direct and reported speech, portrayal of action and selection of detail
• Create multi-layered texts, including the use of hyperlinks, linked with web pages

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.)
• Change the order of material within a paragraph, moving the topic sentence

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 the use of 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 of which electronic tools to use for different purposes