A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Now by Morris Gleitzman. 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 contemporary narrative chapter set during a year of crisis (bushfire, displacement, illness — pupils choose), in which an elderly Felix and his granddaughter Zelda live through one decisive event together. The chapter must move fluently between Felix’s present-day actions and his involuntary memories of Poland and the lost first Zelda, so that the reader feels the past pressing against the present without the narrator naming it directly.

Grammar features (Year 6 NC-aligned)

• The passive voice for reflection and the subjunctive mood for hypothetical or remembered states.
• Semicolons to join parallel independent clauses, and colons to introduce a moment of remembering.

Themes explored

Memory across generations, the survivor’s life-after, the granddaughter named for the lost friend, the contemporary echo of past trauma, love as the act of not telling everything.

Key vocabulary

Survivor, namesake, inheritance, ember, reverberate, unspoken, vigil, kindling.

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, Morris Gleitzman, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, now