A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The Vicar of Nibbleswicke by Roald Dahl. 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

A comic narrative in three short chapters telling the story of a kind new vicar who, whenever he becomes nervous, accidentally reverses his words — building from the first embarrassing sermon, through a worried village, to the surprising cure discovered by the doctor. Pupils use subordination with ‘when’ and ‘because’ to explain why the comic mishaps happen, and inverted commas to punctuate the reversed dialogue.

Grammar features (Year 3 NC-aligned)

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

Themes explored

Comic linguistic mishap and the surprise of language going wrong, The kindness of a community looking after one of its own, The patient search for a cure to a peculiar problem, Small disasters caused by mis-speaking and being misunderstood.

Key vocabulary

Vicar, sermon, congregation, nervous, reversed, muddled, peculiar, remedy.

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, Roald Dahl, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the vicar of nibbleswicke