A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy. KS2 Fiction. National-Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and ready to teach.

What’s inside (35 files)

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 (WT/ARE/GD), full session-by-session plans, key questions, assessment focus, and vocabulary focus.
• Child-friendly marking rubric — “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 narrative episode set in Cackle’s Academy, introducing a clumsy witch character who keeps making mistakes, written in third person with fronted adverbials of manner and time, inverted commas for dialogue, and adverbs of frequency to show character.

Grammar features (Year 3 NC-aligned)

• Fronted adverbials of manner and time (NC Year 3/4: expressing time, place and cause using adverbials).
• Inverted commas for direct speech (NC Year 3/4: inverted commas to punctuate direct speech).

Themes explored

Failure and persistence, belonging and friendship, school and magic.

Key vocabulary

Disastrous, desperately, cauldron, incantation, catastrophe, reluctantly, triumphant, academy.

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, Jill Murphy, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the worst witch