A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Tyger 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 (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 two-part final piece: a descriptive narrative recounting Adam Alhambra’s magical first encounter with the Tyger in the rubbish-tip dawn of the Soho ghetto, paired with a formal report titled ‘The Empire of London: A Report on the State of the Realm’ for an imagined Imperial archive.

Grammar features (Year 6 NC-aligned)

• The passive voice (used to create the impersonal, official register of Imperial reports).
• The subjunctive mood (used in hypothetical, formal and conditional clauses, e.g. ‘If the Tyger were to be found…’).

Themes explored

Power and Empire, Myth, magic and the sacred, Freedom and resistance.

Key vocabulary

Empire, ghetto, Tyger, myth, sacred, freedom, decree, fugitive.

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 6 (KS2).
• 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson).

Tags

KS2, Year 6, English, fiction, SF Said, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, tyger