A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm (traditional retelling). KS1 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 full fairy-tale narrative retelling of Rapunzel — from the witch’s tower to the long-hair escape — written in the past tense, using ‘because’ and ‘when’ to join ideas, expanded noun phrases to describe the tower and the dark woods, and exclamation marks for the moment of escape.

Grammar features (Year 2 NC-aligned)

• Expanded noun phrases for description (Year 2 NC).
• Subordination using ‘because’ and ‘when’ (Year 2 NC).

Themes explored

Confinement and freedom, the price of a wish, the long climb, true love finding a way.

Key vocabulary

Tower, witch, tangled, garden, stolen, lonely, escape, freedom.

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 2 (KS1).
• 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson).

Tags

KS1, Year 2, English, fiction, Brothers Grimm (traditional retelling), reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, rapunzel