A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson. 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 Victorian foster-home narrative recounting a significant chapter in Hetty’s early life — a foundling girl with fiery red hair and a fierce spirit — written in the first person, organised into paragraphs around stages of her life, using subordination with ‘when’, ‘before’ and ‘after’, and inverted commas for the dialogue between Hetty and her foster-family.

Grammar features (Year 3 NC-aligned)

• Expressing time using subordinating conjunctions: ‘when’, ‘before’ and ‘after’.
• Inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.

Themes explored

Foundlings and the Foundling Hospital, Victorian childhood, The search for identity, Courage in a hard institution.

Key vocabulary

Foundling, foster, Victorian, institution, matron, uniform, courage, identity.

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, Jacqueline Wilson, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, hetty feather