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

A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Front Desk by Kelly Yang. 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 formal/narrative outcome inspired by Mia Tang’s life at the Calivista Motel. Pupils write a polished persuasive letter from a tenant to a landlord, demanding fair treatment and the return of withheld rent, and a linked narrative chapter about a ‘secret guest’ hidden in Room 12 — combining the formal register and passive constructions of the letter with the suspense and ellipsis of the narrative.

Grammar features (Year 6 NC-aligned)

• The passive voice and formal tone — using passive constructions (e.g. ‘The rules were broken by the manager’) and noun-heavy, depersonalised phrasing to convey authority and to depersonalise blame in formal writing.
• The subjunctive mood for formal requests, hypotheticals and counterfactuals (e.g. ‘If I were to ask…’, ‘I would be grateful if you were to consider…’, ‘It is essential that every guest be treated fairly.’), used in formal letters and persuasive registers.

Themes explored

Immigration and the cost of starting again, Poverty and the dignity of work, Resilience, friendship and standing up to power.

Key vocabulary

Immigrant, exploitation, resilience, tenant, injustice, advocate, negotiate, sanctuary.

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, Kelly Yang, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, front desk