A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Raúf. KS2 Fiction. National-Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and ready to teach.

What’s inside (35 files)

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 (WT/ARE/GD), 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 newspaper report about the refugee crisis, including biographical information about a child refugee, eyewitness quotes, relative clauses for additional detail, and parenthesis using brackets — written from the perspective of a journalist covering the story.

Grammar features (Year 5 NC-aligned)

• Modal verbs (could, might, would, must, should) to express possibility, necessity and uncertainty — used in dialogue and planning scenes (Year 5 NC: modal verbs).
• Relative clauses (introduced by who, which, where, whose, that) used to add biographical and contextual information — particularly in newspaper report writing (Year 5 NC: relative clauses).

Themes explored

Empathy and compassion, The refugee crisis and displacement, Friendship and belonging, Privilege and responsibility.

Key vocabulary

Refugee, displacement, compassion, empathy, persecuted, asylum, bewildered, humanitarian.

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

Tags

KS2, Year 5, English, fiction, Onjali Q Raúf, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the boy at the back of the class