Bloom | Year 3 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Mark Scheme

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Bloom by Anne Booth. 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 marking rubric — “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 descriptive narrative of a city’s transformation from grey to green, opening with the dull, lifeless city, building through the growing acts of kindness as flowers begin to bloom, and culminating in a ‘Letter of Kindness’ from one of the city’s inhabitants to another, capturing the change kindness has caused. Pupils will use adverbs of manner and expanded noun phrases to bring the beautiful, blooming flowers and the changing city to vivid life.

Grammar features (Year 3 NC-aligned)

• Expanded noun phrases (using adjectives, prepositional phrases, and precise nouns to add detail).
• Adverbs of manner (showing precisely how an action is performed).

Themes explored

Kindness, nature and growth, community.

Key vocabulary

Bloom, transform, kindness, wilted, thrive, bustling, tender, flourish.

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

Tags

KS2, Year 3, English, fiction, Anne Booth, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, bloom