Cyborg Cat | Year 3 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Marking Scheme

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Cyborg Cat by Ade Adepitan. 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 two-part extended piece: an adventure narrative in which the central character, drawn from ‘Team Unstoppable’, uses their distinctive Superpower to complete a mission with a clear problem and solution; followed by a short autobiography excerpt written in the voice of Ade looking back on a real moment from his life on or off the basketball court.

Grammar features (Year 3 NC-aligned)

• Adverbs to express time and place (fronted adverbials).
• Inverted commas to mark direct speech in the team’s dialogue.

Themes explored

Disability and difference as strength, Friendship and teamwork, Heroism and finding your superpower.

Key vocabulary

Superpower, mission, teammate, determined, courage, wheelchair, obstacle, champion.

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, Ade Adepitan, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, cyborg cat