Outline of literacy planning for Year 6, broken down by unit and week, for narrative, non-fiction and poetry, plus revision periods. Contains extensive links to supporting documentation and resources.
The National Strategies Last update: 2011
Table showing the suggested breakdown of teaching units across the three core planning blocks, and a further table detailing the application of the twelve strands' learning objectives across the three units of the revision block: Reading and writing narrative (and plays), reading and writing non-fiction, reading and writing poetry.
The National Strategies Last update: 2011
Overview of the Year 1 poetry curriculum - outlining the contents of the 2 units which include: The power of imagery; Finding a voice.
The National Strategies Last update: 2011
Table showing the breakdown of teaching units across the four core planning blocks in Year 6 Narrative.
The National Strategies Last update: 2011
Year 6 Literacy planning grid for non-fiction, showing the links between terms 1, 2 and 3 of the 2003 National Literacy Strategy and units 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the 2006 Primary Framework.
The National Strategies Last update: 2011
Overview of the Year 5/6 Additional text-based units, detailing teaching approaches and learning objectives.
The National Strategies Last update: 2011
Guidance on teaching approaches to meet the Year 6 learner’s needs in literacy, along with descriptions of what should be expected in the learner. The reading curriculum in Year 6 remains soundly based on a wide range of high-quality fiction, poetry and non-fiction, including ICT and other visual and multimodal texts, and continues to provide opportunities for children to extend and apply their repertoire of reading skills.
The National Strategies Last update: 2011
Overview of literacy planning for Year 5, showing units for Narrative and Plays, Non-fiction and Poetry. Contains extensive links to supporting documentation and resources.
The National Strategies Last update: 2011
List outlining the skills and abilities pupils should already possess prior to starting this unit. The unit focuses on the reading and writing of fiction and play texts.
The National Strategies Last update: 2011
Overview of the teaching sequence for this unit, including a short summary of each phase, an overview of the main activities, and a list of correlations to the 1998 Framework objectives. This summative non-fiction unit revises previous learning through the consideration of the integration of digital images and video, etc. Pupils create a virtual tour.
The National Strategies Last update: 2011
