A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett. 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 sequence of linked episodic narratives following three different Ruggles children across the same Saturday in Otwell, each finding a different small adventure in the streets, shops or fields of their interwar town. Pupils write three connected episodes, each grouped into its own paragraph, using ‘when’ and ‘because’ to join ideas and inverted commas to show the bustle of family talk.

Grammar features (Year 3 NC-aligned)

• Subordinating conjunctions ‘when’ and ‘because’ to express time and cause.
• Inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.

Themes explored

Family love in a busy household, The daily life of a working-class family in interwar Britain, Comic small adventures of ordinary children, The dignity and pride of ordinary working life.

Key vocabulary

Respectable, bustling, tenement, errand, scolding, mischief, tuppence, wash-tub.

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

Tags

KS2, Year 3, English, fiction, Eve Garnett, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the family from one end street