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

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (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 gothic outcome: a sustained gothic narrative dramatising the night the creature is brought to life, paired with Victor Frankenstein’s formal scientific log charting the same experiment. Pupils learn to write in two registers — atmospheric and dispassionate — and to understand that the horror of the novel lives in the gap between them.

Grammar features (Year 6 NC-aligned)

• The passive voice — used to remove the actor and create the cold, depersonalised register of a scientific log (e.g. ‘The current was applied. The body was observed.’).
• The subjunctive mood — used to express hypothetical, wished-for or counterfactual states, particularly Victor’s regrets (e.g. ‘If life were to begin again, I would not reach for it.’).

Themes explored

The responsibility of the creator for what they create, the loneliness of the outsider — both Victor and the creature, the ambition of science and the cost of knowledge sought without conscience.

Key vocabulary

Galvanism, wretch, dispassionate, abhorrent, subjunctive, passive, isolation, sublime.

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, Mary Shelley (adapted), reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, frankenstein