A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Farm Animals and Where Our Food Comes From by Various (themed unit using non-fiction big book and farm photographs). KS1 Non-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 simple non-fiction information text about three farm animals and the food they give us, followed by a short recount of a class farm visit. Children use capital letters and full stops, the joining word ‘and’, adjective noun phrases and sequence words to organise their writing across two linked pages.

Grammar features (Year 1 NC-aligned)

• Capital letters, full stops and the joining word ‘and’.
• Adjective noun phrases and sequence words for time order.

Themes explored

Farm animals and their young, From farm to plate: the journey of our food, The seasons on a working farm, The job of a farmer.

Key vocabulary

Farm, farmer, tractor, hen, cow, sheep, harvest, dairy.

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, non-fiction, Various (themed unit using non-fiction big book and farm photographs), reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, farm animals and where our food comes from