A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman. 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 suspenseful narrative retelling of ‘The Wolves in the Walls’ from Lucy’s perspective, building tension through fronted adverbials and precise commas, followed by a companion set of formal ‘Wolf-Removal’ instructions written to the neighbours.

Grammar features (Year 4 NC-aligned)

• Fronted adverbials of time, place and manner, with a comma after the fronted adverbial.
• Expanded noun phrases and commas to clarify meaning and avoid ambiguity.

Themes explored

Fear and the imagination, Family loyalty and being believed, Logic versus the impossible.

Key vocabulary

Scratching, creeping, muttering, hissing, wallpaper, infestation, ridiculous, evidence.

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, Neil Gaiman, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the wolves in the walls