Daydreams and Jellybeans | Year 3 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Mark Scheme

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Daydreams and Jellybeans by Alex Wharton. KS2 Poetry. 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 small collection of three or four short poems on the small wonders and worries of childhood — each capturing one tiny moment that matters, presented together as a published anthology page with the pupil’s own title and illustration.

Grammar features (Year 3 NC-aligned)

• Subordinate clauses using ‘when’ to fix a moment in time.
• Subordinate clauses using ‘because’ to give a reason for a feeling.

Themes explored

Childhood worry and wonder, The small thing that matters, The voice of a child, The play of language.

Key vocabulary

Daydream, wonder, worry, moment, imagine, ordinary, stanza, image.

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, poetry, Alex Wharton, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, daydreams and jellybeans