A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The British Slave Trade and its Abolition by Various primary and secondary sources (Olaudah Equiano, William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, Mary Prince, Hannah More, contemporary historians). 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 paired non-fiction outcome: an information text on the transatlantic slave trade and the abolition movement (with subheadings, relative clauses and parenthesis) alongside a persuasive speech in the style of the abolitionists, using modal verbs and cause-and-effect adverbials to argue that the work of equality is still unfinished today.

Grammar features (Year 5 NC-aligned)

• Relative clauses using who, which, whose and where to add layered information.
• Modal verbs (must, should, ought, will, can) to build a moral persuasive case.

Themes explored

The scale and machinery of the transatlantic slave trade, The lives, voices and resistance of enslaved people, The long abolition campaign and the people who built it, The unfinished work of equality and justice today.

Key vocabulary

Transatlantic, enslavement, abolition, plantation, petition, testimony, injustice, legacy.

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, Various primary and secondary sources (Olaudah Equiano, William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, Mary Prince, Hannah More, contemporary historians), reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the british slave trade and its abolition