A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Fing by David Walliams. 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 comic narrative recounting Myrtle Meek’s demand for an impossible pet — a ‘fing’ — and the increasingly desperate, ridiculous lengths her parents Mr and Mrs Meek go to in order to find one, ending in chaotic comic consequence.

Grammar features (Year 3 NC-aligned)

• Subordinate clauses using the conjunctions ‘when’ and ‘because’.
• Inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.

Themes explored

The spoilt only child and parental over-indulgence, Comic exaggeration and ridiculous consequence, The impossible demand and the desperate quest, How saying yes too often makes you trapped.

Key vocabulary

Demanded, impossible, desperate, ridiculous, spoilt, indulgent, frantically, absurd.

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

Tags

KS2, Year 3, English, fiction, David Walliams, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, fing