Wicked Writers: Character Description Unit (Year 3/4)
Looking to deepen your pupils’ descriptive writing while keeping them fully engaged? Wicked Writers is a ready‑to‑teach, three‑lesson English unit built around powerful characters from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Through high‑quality texts, drama‑filled inference, and rich vocabulary work, pupils are carefully guided from immersion and reading like a writer to collecting ambitious language ready for writing success.
Perfect for National Storytelling Week, a standalone writing unit, or as part of a longer narrative sequence, this resource supports pupils to meet (and exceed) Y3/4 writing expectations with clarity, creativity, and confidence.
✔ Minimal prep
✔ Clear learning journey
✔ Grammar taught in context
✔ Model answers and WAGOLLs included

The Learning Journey
Pupils follow a deliberate and supportive sequence that mirrors the writing process:

Immerse – explore character through inference and prediction
Analyse – study the structure and language features of character descriptions
Gather – collect ambitious vocabulary and sentence structures
Plan → Draft → Edit → Final Write (embedded across the wider unit)