A 3-week, fully resourced Year 1 English unit based on Dragon Post by Emma Yarlett. KS1 fiction with National Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and everything 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 with illustrated cover slides, success criteria, vocabulary previews, modelled writing, Bloom’s-laddered big questions, differentiation tiers, plenary and reflection.
• 15 differentiated resource sheets (Working Towards, Age-Related Expectations, Greater Depth) with sentence frames, word banks and writing frames.
• Complete teacher unit plan: overview, key themes, model texts, session-by-session plans, key questions, assessment focus and vocabulary focus.
• Child-friendly mark scheme with ‘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
Children write an extended piece inspired by Dragon Post: a postcard or letter from a helpful character to someone in need, showing care and kindness through their words and illustrations.

GRAMMAR FEATURES (Year 1 NC-aligned)
• Using capital letters at the start of sentences.
• Using full stops at the end of sentences.

THEMES EXPLORED
Helping others, friendship and kindness, courage, dragons as heroes, delivering joy.

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 approaches.

Year 1 (KS1). 15 sessions over 3 weeks (approximately 45-60 minutes per lesson).