A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Phoenix by SF Said. 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.

• 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 space-opera narrative recounting a dramatic star-fight between two warring fleets, told from the perspective of a young Astral pilot whose ship is caught in the crossfire. Pupils will weave cosmic description, dialogue and high-stakes action across at least three paragraphs, using relative clauses to layer in detail about ships, stars and characters, and parenthesis (brackets, or dashes for Greater Depth) to insert scientific or emotional asides without breaking the pace of the battle.

Grammar features (Year 5 NC-aligned)

• Relative clauses using relative pronouns (who, which, that, whose, where) to add cosmic descriptive detail.
• Parenthesis using brackets to insert scientific or explanatory information.

Themes explored

Fate, space and the cosmos, power and prophecy.

Key vocabulary

Constellation, supernova, nebula, prophecy, destiny, galaxy, luminous, interstellar.

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, SF Said, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, phoenix