Transform your English lessons with this comprehensive resource pack based on the atmospheric narrative Little Vixen Street. Perfect for Years 5 and 6, this ready-to-teach unit develops reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar through an engaging first-person suspense story told from the perspective of a fox. The accompanying lesson sequence follows the Talk for Writing approach from imitation through innovation to independent writing.

This pack contains 40+ pages of high-quality, classroom-ready resources including:

• Detailed Talk for Writing lesson sequence
• Hand-drawn colour and black & white story maps
• Completed and blank boxing-up grids
• Story mountain and plot structure organiser*
• VIPERS comprehension (1*, 2*, 3 differentiation)
• Reading as a Reader activities
• Retrieval, inference and author’s choice challenges
• Discussion cards
• Language features Hunt
• Grammar activities
• Writer’s Toolkit poster
• Magpie vocabulary posters
• Powerful verbs poster
• Atmosphere vocabulary
• Show Don’t Tell examples
• Sentence and paragraph improvement mat
• Character profiles
• Setting resources
• Sensory map
• Atmosphere wheel
• Drama activities including Role on the Wall, Hot Seating, Freeze Frames and interviews
• Fast Finisher activities
• Innovation story model
• Success criteria and self-assessment

Children will explore:

First-person narration
Suspense writing
Rich vocabulary
Sensory description
Personification
Show, don’t tell
Powerful verbs
Short sentences for effect
Internal thoughts
Mood and atmosphere
Authorial choices
Grammar in context
Editing and improving writing

This unit is ideal for Upper Key Stage 2, providing everything needed to teach a complete narrative writing sequence while developing reading comprehension, drama, vocabulary and writing skills.