A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve. 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 extended descriptive narrative about meeting Cliff the Mountain — a wandering Rambling Isle — combined with an information page on sea monkeys for the ship’s logbook. Pupils use expanded noun phrases to bring the island and its creatures vividly to life and use subheadings to organise factual writing about sea monkeys.

Grammar features (Year 3 NC-aligned)

• Expanded noun phrases (adjective + adjective + noun, and prepositional phrases for added detail).
• Subheadings and paragraphs for organising non-fiction (with inverted commas introduced as a GD reach for direct speech and song lyrics).

Themes explored

Exploration and adventure, family and belonging, creativity and imagination.

Key vocabulary

Rambling, wandering, barnacle, explorer, voyage, ancient, mossy, treacherous.

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, Philip Reeve, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, oliver and the seawigs