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Children’s Services
Manchester
3-11 Strategy
Using the Interactive
Planning tool to plan
units of work in literacy
September 13th 2007
September 20th 2007
Aims
participants will be
supported to…
• become familiar with the interactive
planning tool and begin to consider how
they might utilise this to support planning
• gain a clear understanding of the planning
process in relation to the renewed literacy
framework
• begin to consider what literacy planning for
individual units will look like in their own
school
Programme
• Framework navigation
• Using the interactive planning tool to
plan a unit of work
Coffee
• The process of planning – things to
consider
• Summary
The Renewed framework
key messages
• Encouraging flexibility in the organisation of the curriculum and
the structure of literacy and mathematics lessons
• Structuring learning over sequences of lessons as well as within
lessons
• Raising expectations for all children, especially those at
greatest risk of underachievement
• More effective use of assessment to inform and direct
teaching and learning
• Broadening and strengthening pedagogy to include a clearer
focus on inclusion, the use of ICT, speaking, listening and
learning, and in developing core areas of learning in literacy
and mathematics across the curriculum.
Framework navigation
Literacy tab
Planning tab
Year group
Select block unit
Select the
unit you
want
here…
Yearly overview for
Year 5 – those
starred have a
teaching sequence
or here…
Teaching
sequence
Show all
Click on the
library for
additional
resources
Resources
Using the planning tool
Click on the
Interactive
Planning tool tab
to install / see
notes
• Close Internet Explorer
• Find the Planning Tool icon (e.g. on
the desktop) and double click to
open
• ‘Welcome to the Planning Tool v3’
To use the Interactive Planning Tool see Manchester
introductory notes and flowchart
Template
Flow chart
Instructions
Developments in
Planning
• Based on findings from the work of Eve Bearne, and
action research by practitioners
• Developing practice from coverage within fixed time
frames to more flexible learning sequences based on
AfL
• Planning model underpins the role of the renewed
framework in raising standards
Underpinning Principles
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Learning and Teaching:
Firmly based on AfL
Has a clear outcome and purpose
Works through a sequence of phases to support
learning
Provides time for children to explore and respond to
texts
Provides time for children to experience and engage
in the writing process
Provides time for children to plan collaboratively and
as individuals
Speaking and listening is integral to the learning
Utilises modelled, shared, guided and supported
approaches to scaffold learning
Planning Phases
The planning process for a unit of work
What process do you need to go
through in order to plan a unit of work
effectively?
Discuss
Planning effectively
Assessment of and for learning
• Intended outcomes
• Audience, purpose, format
(presentation)
• Prior learning
• Priority of objectives (targets)
• Milestones
• Resources