A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf. KS1 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.

• 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 narrative retelling of Ferdinand’s day in the bullring, describing how he refused to fight and chose to smell the flowers instead, using capital letters, full stops, the joining word ‘and’, adjective noun phrases, and exclamation marks.

Grammar features (Year 1 NC-aligned)

• Capital letters, full stops and the joining word ‘and’.
• Adjective noun phrases and exclamation marks.

Themes explored

Peace and gentleness, Refusing the role others expect of you, Identity and being yourself, The courage to be calm.

Key vocabulary

Gentle, peaceful, fierce, matador, bullring, meadow, cork, refuse.

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 1 (KS1).
• 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson).

Tags

KS1, Year 1, English, fiction, Munro Leaf, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the story of ferdinand