A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Replay by Anthony Lucas. 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 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 mystery narrative in which a Year 6 character relives a single moment from their day on a strange, broken loop — pupils must build atmosphere, withhold information from the reader, and resolve the mystery using passive voice for the looping event and the subjunctive mood for moments of regret and longing.

Grammar features (Year 6 NC-aligned)

• The passive voice (e.g. ‘The clock had been wound back’, ‘He was being pulled through the same minute again’) used to obscure agency and create mystery.
• The subjunctive mood (e.g. ‘If he were to change the past…’, ‘Were she able to step out of the loop, she would tell him.’) used to express regret, longing and hypothetical alternatives.

Themes explored

Time and the repetition of small moments, Choices, regret and the things we wish we had said, Memory — what we keep, what we lose, and what keeps coming back.

Key vocabulary

Loop, regret, fracture, echo, threshold, irrevocable, suspended, recurrence.

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 6 (KS2).
• 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson).

Tags

KS2, Year 6, English, fiction, Anthony Lucas, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, replay