A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Greek Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean. KS2 Fiction. National-Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and ready to teach.

What’s inside (35 files)

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 (WT/ARE/GD), full session-by-session plans, key questions, assessment focus, and vocabulary focus.
• Child-friendly marking rubric — “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 full retelling of a Greek myth using the five-part story structure, incorporating relative clauses to describe gods and heroes, expanded noun phrases for mythological settings, and possessive apostrophes for plural nouns.

Grammar features (Year 4 NC-aligned)

• Relative clauses to describe gods and heroes using who, which, whose, where (Year 4 NC: using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that).
• Possessive apostrophes for plural nouns (Year 4 NC: apostrophes to mark possession including plurals).

Themes explored

Hubris and the danger of pride, fate and the will of the gods, the human desire to be like the gods, courage in the face of impossible challenges.

Key vocabulary

Hubris, immortal, mortal, prophecy, labyrinth, treacherous, divine, triumph.

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, Geraldine McCaughrean, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, greek myths