Beegu | Year 1 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Rubric

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Beegu by Alexis Deacon. KS1 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, reflection
15 differentiated resource sheets — Working Towards / Age-Related Expectations / Greater Depth, with sentence frames, word banks, writing frames
Complete teacher unit plan — unit overview, key themes, model texts (WT/ARE/GD), full session-by-session plans, key questions, assessment focus, vocabulary focus
Child-friendly marking marking 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 narrative from the perspective of someone who feels different or lost, exploring belonging and kindness, written in first person using adjective noun phrases, question marks to show uncertainty, and the joining word ‘because’ to give reasons

Grammar features (Year 1 NC-aligned)

• Question marks to punctuate questions and show uncertainty (Year 1 NC: punctuation — question marks)
• Adjective noun phrases to describe characters and settings (Year 1 NC: sentence grammar — expanded noun phrases using adjectives)

Themes explored

Belonging, difference, empathy, welcome

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

Tags

KS1, Year 1, English, fiction, Alexis Deacon, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, beegu