A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Into the Forest by Anthony Browne. KS1 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.

• 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 suspenseful narrative retelling of ‘Into the Forest’ that weaves in references to other fairy tales the boy passes on his journey. Pupils use ‘that’ to link ideas (e.g. the path that was dark) and apostrophes for contraction (didn’t, wouldn’t, I’m) to build atmosphere and voice.

Grammar features (Year 2 NC-aligned)

• Using subordination with ‘that’ to link ideas and add information (e.g. the path that was dark, the coat that was red).
• Apostrophes for contraction (didn’t, wouldn’t, I’m, can’t, won’t).

Themes explored

Fear and bravery, family and belonging, intertextuality with fairy tales.

Key vocabulary

Forest, shortcut, shiver, echo, lonely, whisper, tangled, warmth.

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 2 (KS1).
• 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson).

Tags

KS1, Year 2, English, fiction, Anthony Browne, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, into the forest