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

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Dracula by Bram Stoker (adapted). 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 two-part written response to the opening of Stoker’s Dracula: a suspenseful gothic narrative describing Jonathan Harker’s first night inside Castle Dracula, paired with a formal investigative report addressed to Professor Van Helsing recording the strange evidence Harker has gathered.

Grammar features (Year 6 NC-aligned)

• Colons used to introduce lists (and to introduce a related explanation).
• The passive voice to create atmosphere and shift focus from agent to action.

Themes explored

Fear, the gothic, mystery and the unknown.

Key vocabulary

Ominous, spectral, desolate, subterranean, foreboding, translucent, guttering, unhallowed.

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, Bram Stoker (adapted), reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, dracula