# Eric | Year 6 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Mark Scheme

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Eric by Shaun Tan. 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 two-part written response: (1) a humorous narrative recounting Eric’s strange behaviours during his ‘cultural exchange’ visit and (2) a formal letter sent to Eric’s home explaining the family’s experience and reflecting on what they learned. The narrative should make the reader laugh while quietly raising questions about belonging and misunderstanding; the formal letter should be sincere, polite and lightly humorous, and should use the subjunctive mood (GD) to express wishes and hypothetical regrets.

Grammar features (Year 6 NC-aligned)

• The passive voice — used to express the family’s expectations and the unspoken rules of the household (‘Eric was expected to sleep in the guest room.’).
• Colons used to introduce a list — used to catalogue Eric’s strange habits and unfamiliar choices (‘Eric did several peculiar things: he slept in the pantry, he studied bottle tops, he sat in the rain.’).

Themes explored

Belonging and what it means to make someone feel at home, Misunderstanding across cultures and the gentle humour it produces, Wonder, attention and noticing the small details others overlook.

Key vocabulary

Exchange, expectation, peculiar, etiquette, perplexed, gesture, hospitality, 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 6 (KS2).
• 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson).

Tags

KS2, Year 6, English, fiction, Shaun Tan, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, eric