A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The Hueys in the New Sweater by Oliver Jeffers. KS1 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 comic narrative about a community of identical creatures and the one Huey who wears something different — pupils write their own short Huey story in which a tiny, unexpected difference (a hat, a song, a wobble) appears in one Huey and slowly spreads through the whole community, ending with the new normal.

Grammar features (Year 2 NC-aligned)

• Past tense verbs (regular -ed endings and common irregular verbs).
• Subordination using ‘because’ and ‘when’ to join clauses.

Themes explored

Conformity and individuality, The comic group-mind and how feelings spread, Gentle subversion and the joy of being different, How one small change can quietly change everyone.

Key vocabulary

Identical, community, different, knitted, shocked, gasped, spread, ordinary.

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 2 (KS1).
• 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson).

Tags

KS1, Year 2, English, fiction, Oliver Jeffers, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the hueys in the new sweater