A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The Barnabus Project by The Fan Brothers. 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

An escape narrative retelling Barnabus’s journey from the underground lab up to the world above, paired with a ‘Perfect Pet’ character profile describing a brand-new strange, tiny creature the children have invented themselves.

Grammar features (Year 2 NC-aligned)

• Expanded noun phrases for description and specification (adjective + adjective + noun).
• Commas to separate items in a list.

Themes explored

Perfection and flaws, Freedom and escape, Belonging and friendship.

Key vocabulary

Perfect, flawed, project, escape, freedom, creature, rejected, brave.

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, The Fan Brothers, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the barnabus project