A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell. 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 the National Curriculum for English at KS1 and KS2.

• 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 high-fantasy narrative set in a richly described secondary world featuring a mythical creature, followed by a non-chronological field guide entry to a creature of the pupil’s invention.

Grammar features (Year 6 NC-aligned)

• Expanded noun phrases with layered relative clauses for descriptive world-building.
• Passive voice to create distance and a legendary register; semi-colons in extended descriptive sentences.

Themes explored

Mythical creatures and folklore, Friendship in danger, Conservation as adventure, The threat to wonder, Hidden worlds and portals, Bravery in the face of the unknown.

Key vocabulary

Ethereal, mythical, enchantment, sanctuary, peril, folklore, realm, luminescent.

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