A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo. 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 hybrid extended piece beginning as a survival narrative set in the Indonesian rainforest in the days after the Boxing Day tsunami, then opening out into an information text about orangutans and the threat that palm-oil plantations pose to their habitat.

Grammar features (Year 4 NC-aligned)

• Fronted adverbials, demarcated with a comma.
• Expanded noun phrases with prepositional phrases.

Themes explored

Survival and resilience, Grief and loss, The bond between humans and animals, Deforestation and palm oil.

Key vocabulary

Tsunami, rainforest, orangutan, deforestation, plantation, endangered, instinct, desolate.

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

Tags

KS2, Year 4, English, fiction, Michael Morpurgo, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, running wild