A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. KS1 Fiction. National-Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and ready to teach.

What’s inside (35 files)

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, reflection 15 differentiated resource sheets — Working Towards / Age-Related Expectations / Greater Depth, with sentence frames, word banks, writing frames
Complete teacher unit plan — unit overview, key themes, model texts (WT/ARE/GD), full session-by-session plans, key questions, assessment focus, vocabulary focus
Child-friendly marking rubric — “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 narrative adventure chapter in the style of Roald Dahl in which Mr Fox outwits the three farmers using a clever plan, including dialogue, expanded noun phrases describing the farmers and the fox, past tense and past progressive, coordination using but, or and yet, and apostrophes for omission in dialogue

Grammar features (Year 2 NC-aligned)

• Expanded noun phrases to describe and specify (Year 2 NC: noun phrases expanded by addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases)
• Coordination using but, or and yet; apostrophes for omission in contracted forms within dialogue (Year 2 NC)

Themes explored

Cleverness versus brute force, community and family, fairness and good versus evil

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

Tags

KS1, Year 2, English, fiction, Roald Dahl, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, fantastic mr fox