Danny, the Champion of the World | Year 3 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Mark Scheme

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl. 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 narrative chapter telling the story of the night Danny and his father carry out their secret pheasant-poaching plan in Hazell’s Wood — building tension from the quiet filling-station, through the walk through the dark trees, to the moment the sleeping pheasants begin to fall from the branches.

Grammar features (Year 3 NC-aligned)

• Subordinate clauses using the conjunctions ‘when’, ‘before’ and ‘after’.
• Inverted commas (speech marks) to punctuate direct speech, with a comma before the closing inverted comma.

Themes explored

The bond between a father and his son, Rule-breaking with moral nuance — when is wrong-doing forgivable?, The comic adversary: standing up to the bully (Mr Victor Hazell), The rural English setting — woods, fields and the old gypsy caravan.

Key vocabulary

Poacher, pheasant, filling-station, caravan, mechanic, marvellous, mischief, wretched.

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

Tags

KS2, Year 3, English, fiction, Roald Dahl, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, danny, the champion of the world