A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Coco by Lee Unkrich. KS2 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 two-part written response: first, a narrative about a young person who discovers a long-buried family secret that crosses generations; second, an informational text on the Mexican Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), explaining its customs, symbols and meaning with cultural respect.

Grammar features (Year 4 NC-aligned)

• Introductory phrases for chronology (fronted adverbials of time, separated by a comma).
• Relative clauses using who, whose, which and that to add information about ancestral characters.

Themes explored

Family memory and legacy across generations, Dia de los Muertos and the duty of remembering, Music as an inheritance that cannot be silenced.

Key vocabulary

Ancestor, ofrenda, marigold, legacy, inheritance, generation, silenced, remembrance.

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 4 (KS2).
• 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson).

Tags

KS2, Year 4, English, fiction, Lee Unkrich, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, coco