Clean Up! | Year 2 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Mark Scheme

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Clean Up! by Nathan Bryon. 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 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

An information report about plastic pollution on our beaches and in our oceans, organised under subheadings, using ‘because’ to explain the impact on sea creatures, and using commas in lists of pollution types.

Grammar features (Year 2 NC-aligned)

• Commas in a list (separating three or more pollution types or items)
• Subordination using ‘that’ (adding extra information to a noun)

Themes explored

Looking after the environment, Community and working together, Taking action and standing up for what is right.

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

Tags

KS1, Year 2, English, fiction, Nathan Bryon, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, clean up!