A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Gargantis by Thomas Taylor. 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 (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 (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

An adventure narrative recounting the appearance of a sea-monster off the coast of Eerie-on-Sea, written in the spirit of Thomas Taylor’s prose: atmospheric, salt-soaked, and laced with the ambiguity of legend. Pupils will then write a paired formal report submitted to the Museum of Eerie, classifying the creature, presenting eyewitness sightings in the passive voice, and using colons to introduce evidence drawn from the storm.

Grammar features (Year 6 NC-aligned)

• The passive voice, used to make sightings feel official, anonymous, and detached — as a witness statement or a museum label would.
• Colons used to introduce evidence, examples and explanations, especially when quoting witnesses, the storm, or fragments of the manifest.

Themes explored

Mystery, nature, legend.

Key vocabulary

Leviathan, manifest, salvage, phosphorescence, chimerical, mariner, uncanny, specimen.

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

Tags

KS2, Year 6, English, fiction, Thomas Taylor, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, gargantis