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

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Clockwork by Philip Pullman. 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 gothic horror story combining two intertwined narratives that converge at a climax, using subjunctive mood, colons and semi-colons, and passive voice.

Grammar features (Year 6 NC-aligned)

• Subjunctive mood in conditional sentences (Year 6 NC: distinguish between the language of speech and writing; subjunctive forms such as ‘if I were’ or ‘were they to come’).
• Colons and semi-colons to mark boundaries between independent clauses and to create sophisticated sentence structures (Year 6 NC: use of the colon to introduce a list; use of semi-colons, colons and dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses).

Themes explored

Fate and free will, the consequences of our choices, the gothic tradition and craft and artistry.

Key vocabulary

Sinister, inexorable, malevolent, grotesque, foreboding, intertwined, mechanism, gothic.

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, Philip Pullman, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, clockwork