A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The Girl Who Stole an Elephant by Nizrana Farook. 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 marking rubric — “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 adventure narrative set in ancient Sri Lanka, in which the protagonist faces a dangerous obstacle and must rely on friendship and loyalty to survive. Includes expanded noun phrases to evoke the lush jungle setting, relative clauses to add dramatic detail about characters and events, and inverted commas to punctuate tense dialogue between characters.

Grammar features (Year 4 NC-aligned)

• Expanded noun phrases (Year 3–4 NC: using noun phrases expanded by modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases).
• Relative clauses (Year 5–6 NC introduced early for Year 4 challenge: using who, which, where, whose, that to add detail about nouns).

Themes explored

Justice and doing what is right even when it is dangerous, Friendship, loyalty and trust across difference, Adventure in an unfamiliar ancient culture and setting.

Key vocabulary

Glittering, lush, emerald, magnificent, treacherous, pursuit, devoted, ancient.

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, Nizrana Farook, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the girl who stole an elephant