A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner. 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 fantasy-adventure narrative set on Alderley Edge in which a child protagonist discovers a hidden magical inheritance and is pursued across the real Cheshire landscape by an ancient power that wants the stone back.

Grammar features (Year 5 NC-aligned)

• Relative clauses (using which, who, whose, where, when) to add layered detail to noun phrases.
• Modal verbs (could, might, must, should, would) to convey degrees of possibility and inevitability during pursuit.

Themes explored

The magical-real landscape: real places that hold ancient power, Inheritance from older powers and the weight of guardianship, The chase across real British places, Children at the centre of myth.

Key vocabulary

Weirdstone, inheritance, pursuit, folklore, sandstone, guardian, threshold, wakeful.

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

Tags

KS2, Year 5, English, fiction, Alan Garner, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the weirdstone of brisingamen