A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Six-Dinner Sid by Inga Moore. KS1 Fiction. National-Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and ready to teach.

What’s inside

This complete English unit gives you everything for three weeks of high-quality teaching, designed to match the standard of leading primary schemes (Literacy Tree, Write Stuff, Power of Reading).

• 15 lesson PowerPoints — illustrated cover slides, success criteria, vocabulary previews, modelled writing, “big questions” (Bloom’s-laddered), differentiation tiers, plenary, and reflection.
• 15 differentiated resource sheets — Working Towards, Age-Related Expectations, and Greater Depth, with sentence frames, word banks, and writing frames.
• Complete teacher unit plan — unit overview, key themes, model texts, full session-by-session plans, key questions, assessment focus, and vocabulary focus.
• Child-friendly mark scheme — “I can…” success criteria for the final writing piece, ready for self- and peer-assessment.
• 3 weekly exit tickets — 5 multiple-choice questions per week, with teacher answer keys.

Final writing outcome

A comic narrative retelling Sid’s clever scheme, written as a short illustrated story. Children describe each of Sid’s six homes using adjective noun phrases, sequence the day with the joining word ‘and’, and use exclamation marks for the dramatic moment Sid is discovered at the vet’s. The final piece reaches a ‘second chance’ ending where Sid is fed six dinners again — but this time openly.

Grammar features (Year 1 NC-aligned)

• Joining words and clauses using ‘and’; capital letters and full stops to demarcate sentences.
• Exclamation marks to show strong feeling or a sudden moment.

Themes explored

Cleverness and consequences, Community on a street, Deception and discovery, Second chances and belonging.

Key vocabulary

Cunning, scheme, neighbour, Aristotle Street, dinner, discovered, vet, cosy.

Format & compatibility

• Editable PowerPoint (.pptx) and Word (.docx) files.
• UK English spelling.
• One printer-friendly A4 page per resource sheet.
• Compatible with Literacy Tree, Write Stuff, and Power of Reading planning approaches.

Year groups & key stage

• Year 1 (KS1).
• 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson).

Tags

KS1, Year 1, English, fiction, Inga Moore, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, six-dinner sid