A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton. 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.

• 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 portal-fantasy narrative chapter describing how three children discover the Faraway Tree at the heart of the Enchanted Wood. Pupils will build suspense through the journey into the wood, describe their first sight of the tree, and use dialogue with a wood-folk character (Moon-Face, Silky or one of their own creation) to reveal the rules of this magical place.

Grammar features (Year 3 NC-aligned)

• Subordinate clauses using the conjunctions ‘when’ and ‘because’.
• Inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.

Themes explored

The discovery of magic next door to ordinary life, The rules and customs of the Enchanted Wood, Friendship between children and magical creatures, The wonder of finding what is hidden.

Key vocabulary

Enchanted, whispering, trembled, extraordinary, clearing, hollow, marvellous, cautiously.

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, Enid Blyton, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the enchanted wood