Frindle | Year 4 English Unit | 15 Complete Lessons + Resources + Mark Scheme

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Frindle by Andrew Clements. KS2 Fiction. National-Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and ready to teach.

What’s inside

This complete English unit gives you everything for three weeks of high-quality teaching, designed to match the standard of the National Curriculum for English at KS1 and KS2.

• 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, 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 school-based narrative in which a pupil’s small classroom idea grows into something far bigger than anyone expected, followed by a non-chronological information text explaining how a new word officially enters a dictionary.

Grammar features (Year 4 NC-aligned)

• Fronted adverbials for sequencing (with comma after the adverbial), e.g. ‘By the end of the week,’, ‘Within a month,’.
• Inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech, including new speaker, new line.

Themes explored

The power of words to change things, School as a place where ideas can grow, Unexpected consequences of a small act, The teacher-pupil relationship reconsidered, Identity, courage and standing out.

Key vocabulary

Frindle, invent, spread, rebellion, stubborn, consequence, dictionary, definition.

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