A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo. 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

An extended wartime narrative set on Dartmoor in 1940, telling the story of two London evacuees who discover a crashed German bomber crew and must decide whether to help or report them. Pupils build moral conflict through internal monologue and dialogue, then resolve it with an act of unexpected compassion.

Grammar features (Year 4 NC-aligned)

• Fronted adverbials to sequence and locate events, separated from the main clause by a comma.
• Inverted commas and dialogue punctuation, with a new line for each new speaker.

Themes explored

Wartime evacuation and the loss of home, The question of who is really the enemy, Moral courage and acts of compassion, Dartmoor and the natural world as a living character.

Key vocabulary

Evacuation, billeted, wreckage, parachute, Luftwaffe, moorland, compassion, betrayal.

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 4 (KS2).
• 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson).

Tags

KS2, Year 4, English, fiction, Michael Morpurgo, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, friend or foe