A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Framed by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. KS2 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.

• 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 (WT/ARE/GD), 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 publication for the Manod Visitor Centre: (1) a humorous first-person narrative chapter, written in the voice of Dylan Hughes, recounting the night the great paintings of the National Gallery were secretly hidden in the slate caverns of Manod and the chaotic ‘art heist’ that nearly went wrong; and (2) a non-chronological ‘Famous Paintings of Manod’ visitor guide describing four of the masterpieces that came to the village, written for families visiting north Wales.

Grammar features (Year 5 NC-aligned)

• Relative clauses (using who, which, that, whose, where) to add descriptive detail to nouns — including embedded relative clauses within longer sentences.
• Parenthesis using brackets to add factual or humorous extra information without breaking the flow of a sentence.

Themes explored

Art and how it changes people, Family, loyalty and looking after each other, Community, belonging and pride in your home town.

Key vocabulary

Masterpiece, gallery, curator, evacuation, perspective, composition, valuation, community.

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

Tags

KS2, Year 5, English, fiction, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, framed