Flat Stanley | Year 3 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Marking Scheme

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. 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 publication: a chronological travel journal recounting Stanley’s posted journey to California (Week 1 outcome) and an independent newspaper report on the night-time art gallery robbery solved by Stanley (final extended piece). Pupils publish both as a class ‘Stanley Files’ folder, with the journal pages decorated as airmail entries and the news report set out in two columns with subheadings.

Grammar features (Year 3 NC-aligned)

• Prepositions of place and time used to express movement and location.
• Subheadings to organise non-fiction writing into clear sections.

Themes explored

Family and belonging, Uniqueness and difference, Adventure and curiosity.

Key vocabulary

Envelope, journey, flattened, ordinary, extraordinary, disguise, witness, headline.

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, Jeff Brown, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, flat stanley