A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Twitch by M.G. Leonard. 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

An atmospheric descriptive narrative set inside a bird-watcher’s hide, opening with a detailed sensory description of the hide itself and developing into a character profile of Twitch as he waits, watches and uncovers the first clues of the thief. The piece must use relative clauses to describe the birds and parenthesis to slip in additional factual detail.

Grammar features (Year 5 NC-aligned)

• Relative clauses using which, who, that, whose and where.
• Parenthesis using brackets, dashes and commas.

Themes explored

The courage of quiet, watchful children, the wild beauty and secrets of British nature, unlikely friendship and trust.

Key vocabulary

Twitcher, camouflage, fugitive, ornithology, plumage, binoculars, reserve, stealth.

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, M.G. Leonard, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, twitch