A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss. KS1 Poetry. 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 rhyming aspirational narrative about a child’s three possible future selves, using capital letters, full stops, the joining word ‘and’, adjective-noun phrases for imagined settings, and exclamation marks for an encouraging refrain.

Grammar features (Year 1 NC-aligned)

• Capital letters, full stops and the joining word ‘and’.
• Adjective-noun phrases and exclamation marks for emphasis.

Themes explored

Hope and possibility, The unpredictable journey of life, Courage in setbacks and pressing on.

Key vocabulary

Journey, places, brave, wonderful, tricky, soar, succeed, press on.

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, poetry, Dr. Seuss, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, oh, the places you’ll go!