A 3-week, fully resourced Year 2 English unit based on Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena. KS1 fiction with National Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and everything ready to teach. A Newbery Medal winner with a strong community theme.

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.
• 15 lesson PowerPoints with illustrated cover slides, success criteria, vocabulary previews, modelled writing, Bloom’s-laddered big questions, differentiation tiers, plenary and reflection.
• 15 differentiated resource sheets (Working Towards, Age-Related Expectations, Greater Depth) with sentence frames, word banks and writing frames.
• Complete teacher unit plan: overview, key themes, model texts, session-by-session plans, key questions, assessment focus and vocabulary focus.
• Child-friendly mark scheme with ‘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 piece describing a special place in their community, inspired by the journey on Market Street, using expanded noun phrases and varied sentence starters.

GRAMMAR FEATURES (Year 2 NC-aligned)
• Expanded noun phrases (e.g. the big red bus, the noisy market square).
• Coordinating conjunctions (and, or, but) to link simple sentences.

THEMES EXPLORED
Urban exploration, family relationships, seeing beauty in everyday places, community and neighbourhoods, gratitude and perspective.

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 approaches.

Year 2 (KS1). 15 sessions over 3 weeks (approximately 45-60 minutes per lesson).