A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. 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 road-trip narrative chapter in which a girl drives across America with her grandparents, telling them the story of her friend Phoebe as the miles unwind. The piece must layer two narratives — the journey outside the car window and the embedded tale being told — and use place-adverbials to carry the reader from state to state.

Grammar features (Year 5 NC-aligned)

• Relative clauses (using who, whose, which, that) to add information about characters and places.
• Parenthesis using pairs of dashes to embed a second voice or story-within-a-story.

Themes explored

Grief and the slow work of remembering, Two stories that quietly become one, The long road across America and what each stop holds, The fierce, awkward kindness of grandparents.

Key vocabulary

Pilgrimage, lullaby, souvenir, horizon, ornery, huzza, Badlands, homesick.

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, Sharon Creech, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, walk two moons