Rooftoppers | Year 5 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Mark Scheme

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell. KS2 Fiction. National-Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and ready to teach.

What’s inside (35 files)

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 (WT/ARE/GD), 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 multi-paragraph narrative set in Paris in which a character navigates the rooftops in search of someone lost, using relative clauses for vivid character and setting description, modal verbs to express possibility and necessity, and parenthesis using dashes to add detail and atmosphere.

Grammar features (Year 5 NC-aligned)

• Relative clauses (who, which, that, whose, where) to add detail to nouns in character and setting description — Year 5/6 NC grammar strand.
• Modal verbs (might, must, could, would, should) to express degrees of possibility, probability and necessity — Year 5/6 NC grammar strand.

Themes explored

Loss and hope, The power of not giving up, The city of Paris as a living character, Friendship and loyalty.

Key vocabulary

Vertiginous, precarious, silhouette, clamber, resolute, labyrinthine, teetering, luminous.

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, Katherine Rundell, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, rooftoppers